Holland is a village in eastern Springfield Township, Lucas County, Ohio, United States.
Later the crossroads called itself Hardy, which is probably taken from Samuel Hardy, who was one of the signers of a document (along with Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Lee and James Monroe) that ceded the northwest territories of Virginia to the government of the United States.
have said the name was given because of the large number of Dutch people in the area, but there were more New Englanders and New Yorkers in the early settlements than there were Dutchmen.
The most likely derivation of the name comes from a story about Franklin Hall (an early house builder in the area) that states when he platted the land for the building of his houses, he asked that it be called Hall Land.
[5] On May 22, 1852, the first train ran between Toledo and Chicago, on two roads, the Michigan Southern and the Indiana Northern.
Three years later, the two railroads consolidated and the Air Line began traversing the rails from Toledo to Elkhart, Indiana.
Records of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad show a station in the area in 1860 with no name, but freight and passengers from that site.
Their names are still memorialized in those respective areas by Clark and Hall Streets.
[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.99 square miles (2.56 km2), all land.