New Holland is a village in Fayette and Pickaway counties in Ohio, United States. The population was 804 at the 2020 census.
The Pickaway County portion of New Holland is part of the Columbus Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Fayette County portion, often called West New Holland, is part of the Washington Court House Micropolitan Statistical Area.
New Holland Historical Marker
The town was originally founded as Flemingsburgh (or Flemingsburg) on September 2, 1818, and was named for John Fleming, son of Captain Fleming of Berkeley County, Virginia, who settled in the area in 1802.The name was later changed to New Holland between 1818 and 1827. The village was named after Holland, the native land of a share of the first settlers.
History
New Holland, Ohio, original 58 lots, streets, and alleys.
In 1818 the original settler’s native of Pennsylvania Dutch, Hollanders, and Germans settled on “Four Corners,” a tract of land in the Virginia Military District, granted to Wilkins Ogden in 1802. This tact was so called because it was, in a wilderness, the intersection of a stagecoach line running east and west, and an Indian foot trail going from north to south. This crossing is today the Main and Front Street intersection.
The settlement soon outgrew its descriptive name and was then called Flemingsburgh, for John Fleming, son of Captain Fleming of Berkeley County, Virginia, who settled in New Holland in 1802. The name remained until about 1825 when the people were thinking about having a Post Office. The settlers being of Dutch descent, renamed their settlement New Holland, the name it remains today.
Most of the houses were log cabins build in a small cluster. There were few business places for trading at that time.
The state chartered New Holland as a village in 1834.
