Holly Oak journal. (Holly Oak, Del.) 1889-1???, 1889-02-01
Our Town..

another city.
To those who have not been thinking of
such thing, and who are not acquainted
with the location, this is an astonishing
fact; but to those who are acquainted with
our town and its advantageous location,
there is nothing surprising in the establish
ment of the new city They only say, ~
wonder why on earth somebody didn't locate
town there fifty years ago. For my part,
always did say it was just the place for
town"
To those who are unfamiliar with our
location and its many advantages, we would
say few words calculated to give them the
information desired.
Holly Oak is on the Delaware shore and
is the central point of that beautiful, high
country, extending from Edge Moor to
Claymont. 1t is only 81 miles from the
Wilmington Depot, miles from Chester
Depot, and ri miles from Broad Street
Station, Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balt-
more Railroad, controlled and operated by
the great Pennsylvania Railroad system,
passes through Holly Oak, and the depot at
present in the Northeastern part, will be
removed to central location, thus bringing
all parts of the city into close proximity to
the station.
The entire town is high and healthy,
rising rapidly and uniformly from the river,
and we are thus assured of absolutely per-
feet drainage, every street being drained
directly into the Delaware river, on which
the town has a frontage of two ffths of
mile.
A strip of land about six hundred feet
wide lying between the railroad and the
river at low water mark, and extending the
full length of the river front, affords the
finest manufacturing sites in the country;
and in order to develop this, and at the
same time promote and further the business
interests of the place, a substantial wharf
and steamboat landing is to be built near
the centre of the water front; and with both
railroad and river facilities brought into full
play, Holly Oak is bound to become bust
ness centre in short time.
AS place of residence, Holly Oak cannot
be excelled Old railroad men who have
travelled over the country North, South,
East and West, say that it is the prettiest
location they have ever seen.
Standing in one spot, and by simply turn
ing the head, one can view the Delaware riv-
er for distance of thirty miles. Off to the
North, family discernable in the distance,
can be seen the public buildings of Phila-
delphia; also to the Southeast of these,
arise, as it were from the river itself, the
mammoth grain elevators at Girard Point,
in the lower end of the same city, while
nearer at hand rise the smoke stacks of
Chester, and four miles above, the stone ice
breakers at Marcus Hook are seen juttng
out into the river.
Then looking across the river which is
two and a quarter miles wide at this
point, the towns, hamlets and farm build
ings of New Jersey, greet the vision, until
it fades in the horizon, twenty miles distant.
Among the most prominent of these is the
town of Pennsgrove, on the opposite side OF
the river, about three miles below.
None who have not visited the place can
appreciate the sublime grandeur and beauty
of the landscape, and none should fail to
avail themselves of the opportunity that is
now being afforded, of seeing for themselves.
Another advantage that Holly Oak has,
is the necessity for business centre in this
district. This need has been growing with
each succeeding wear. and none should be