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Community of Holder History
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

The village of Holder was laid out in this [Old Town] township after the Lake Erie railroad was constructed. ["Official souvenir program, McLean County Centennial, Aug. 27, 28, 30, 1930" by: McLean County Illinois Centennial Souvenir Program Committee, Harold Lang and Eugene Funk] Founded eighty-four years ago, the village of Holder today has a population of 100. It is located east of Bloomington on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. In addition to several retail stores and service establishments, the village contains a large grain elevator and rows of grain storage bins of the Commodity Credit Corporation. Holder was surveyed and platted in 1871 by Charles W. Holder. Today, it is the principal community of Oldtown Township, which has a total population of 730. First to arrive in the township area was William Evans, who came in the spring of 1826. Several years later William Maxwell arrived from North Carolina. [This is McLean County, Illinois by: John Drury, The Loree Co., Chicago, Illinois (1955)]

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