The first merchant at Holmesville was Waterman Fields, a native of the town, whose father came from Rhode Island among the first settlers and located two miles west of New Berlin.

Located about a mile west of the village, on Holmesville Hill Road, a congregation built a church in 1826.

The only other merchant now trading here is Martin A. Burlingame, who is a native of the place, but came here from New York, and commenced business Feb. 1, 1879.

The post office at Holmesville was established in the fall of 1871, and George Miller was the first postmaster.

The Holmesville flouring and grist-mill is owned by the heirs of Mason White, and operated by Rufus S. Whitenden, who took possession Nov. 12, 1878.

It contains three run of stones, which are propelled by water drawn from the Unadilla by means of a ditch a quarter of a mile long and affording a fall of six feet.

The grist-mill at this place was built soon after the saw-mill, by Abraham Holmes, and has undergone the same changes in proprietorship till within three or four years.

Ira Holmes sold it to Mason White, who operated it till his death, in 1879, since which time it has been in possession of his heirs.