Holly Bluff, Mississippi

[citation needed] Following the Civil War, two brothers, Franklin Wilson and John Walter Sharbrough came to the area now known as Holly Bluff.

The older brother, Franklin Wilson Sharbrough purchased the land on the north side of the Sunflower River and established Valley Home Plantation.

John Walter purchased the land on the southern or Sharkey County side of the Sunflower River and called his place Patmos Plantation.

[3] The principal purpose of the Holly Bluff line was to gain access to the cotton grown by the Sharbrough family in this rich section of the Mississippi Delta.

[citation needed] Located just outside Holly Bluff on Mississippi Highway 16 is the Lake George Mound site.