DeSoto County Museum, Hernando
1969
Holiday Inn University
A 3,000-acre Olive Branch purchase in 1969 seeded decades of industrial and hospitality growth in that part of the county.
Cherokee Valley Golf Club, Olive Branch
This story is sourced from the DeSoto County Genealogical Society history of DeSoto County. Welcome Engine does not invent heritage facts outside that record.
Source: DeSoto County Genealogical Society, About DeSoto County: A Brief History of DeSoto County Mississippi
Holiday Inn bought 3,000 acres at Olive Branch in 1969 to open its Holiday Inn University, hotel, and golf course complex.
From that beginning came vast growth in that part of the county of industries of every kind, alongside other postwar landmarks such as Dover Elevator Company opening at Horn Lake in 1963 and Interstate 55 opening through Hernando in 1964.
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