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6 unusual facts about Holly Springs


Holly Springs, North Carolina

On July 18, 2006, it was announced that the pharmaceutical company Novartis would be building a manufacturing facility in Holly Springs and employing approximately 350 to produce flu vaccines using new technologies.

Bristol-Myers Squibb expressed interest in county-owned land along N.C. 55 Bypass at the future interchange of Interstate 540.

In 2007, it was ranked the 22nd best small town to live in, according to a CNNMoney.com evaluation.

Marshall County Airport

Holly Springs-Marshall County Airport in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States (FAA: M41)

OFM, Inc

Founded in 1995, OFM is a leading office and school furniture manufacturer, distributor, and wholesaler with headquarters in Holly Springs, N.C. and operations in Phoenix, Ariz., and Taiwan.

T.M. Scorzafava

T.M. Scorzafava is an award winning Italian-American film writer, director and producer who grew up in Holly Springs, North Carolina as an only child of a single parent family.


Cherokee County, Georgia

It is bisected by Interstate 575, which runs from Marietta north through Woodstock, Lebanon, Holly Springs, Canton, the county seat, and Ball Ground, ending at the Pickens County line into Georgia 515, the Appalachian Parkway developmental highway.

WPXX-TV

The station initially aired programming from the Home Shopping Network (sharing the affiliation with Holly Springs, Mississippi-based WBUY-TV, channel 40), until Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks) began operating the station under a local marketing agreement in 1998, when the station became a charter affiliate of the upstart Pax TV network (now Ion Television).


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Mississippi Highway 7

This sweeping bottomland, located approximately halfway between Holly Springs and Oxford, was the inspiration for fictional settings in several works by William Faulkner.

U.S. Route 178

From there, the highway has a sharp and curvy descent to the valley of the Oolenoy River, which it follows east to near its junction with SC 11 (Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway) at the hamlet of Holly Springs.