Located near the Van Loon Wildlife Area and the McGilvray bridges, this route offers a rather unique combination of historic transportation, architecture and scenic views. The Town is also home to Wisconsin’s Rustic Road R-64. The area is now home to hiking, fishing and wildlife viewing. Five of the seven bridges remain and have been named in the National Register of Historic places. This road was abandoned in July, 1940 by the state and maintained by the Town of Holland for the next ten years at which time the seventh bridge was dismantled, thereby closing the McGilvray Road thoroughfare. In 1891, La Crosse County began building a turnpike and seven bridges across the bottomland on a route previously established by ferry boats. The new hall was completed in 1986 and a large park facility with two ball diamonds added in 1989.Īn historic point of interest in the Town is the McGilvray bridges. However, beginning in the late 1970s, the Town of Holland saw significant population growth which lead to the purchase of land along the west end of McHugh Road in 1984 for the building of a new town hall. With the incorporation of the Village of Holmen in 1946, the Town of Holland sold the park, its accessories, the fire department and the hall to the Village (with the privilege of using it for elections and town meetings). Another town hall was built and later sold to the American Legion for $300 in 1939. A town hall was built in Holmen in 1890 but apparently burned in 1906 or 1907. The first town meeting for the Town of Holland was held on the first Tuesday in April, 1858, at the school house near the Village of New Amsterdam. Today, the church is the only remaining building still in operation, leaving the growth of the township as mostly agricultural and subdivisions. In the early years, New Amsterdam was a growing town that contained a ferry (established in 1853), general store (1853), post office (1855), saw mill (1857), blacksmith shop, stage coach station, hotel (1856), tavern (1856), church (1873) and a school house (1857).
The Town has grown from the first 86 Dutch settlers to more than 4,000 people today.
The Town of Holland began as a small community that formed along the banks of the Black River in 1850, in a burg referred to as New Amsterdam.
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