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Unincorporated community · Gage County · laid out 1880
About Holmesville
Holmesville is an unincorporated community of about 60 people in central Gage County, on the east side of the Big Blue River about 7 miles southeast of Beatrice and 5 miles north of Wymore.
History
Morgan L. Holmes, a New York dry-goods man who came west for his health in 1879, opened a stone quarry here and laid out the town in June 1880 on the Marysville & Blue Valley branch of the Union Pacific; the post office opened that November with Holmes as postmaster. T. Patz opened the first store that winter, a school followed in 1881, and Holmes shipped more than 1,000 carloads of stone that year. Whitesville, within half a mile of the site, had been Gage County's first legal county seat.
Nearby towns
| Blue Springs | about 4.4 mi south | County roads |
| Rockford | about 4.7 mi northeast | County roads |
| Wymore | about 5 mi south | County roads and US 77 |
| Beatrice | about 6 mi northwest | County roads |
| Filley | about 9 mi northeast | County roads |
Things to see
Holmesville Cemetery · Rockford Lake State Recreation Area, about 4 mi northeast
Holmesville Businesses & Places
3 listings in Holmesville.
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Community & Faith (3)
- Holmesville Cemetery — Cemeteries
- Parker Family Cemetery — Cemeteries
- Stark Cemetery — Cemeteries