Holopaw, a Creek Indian word meaning "Walkway" or "Pavement", was a stop along the Kissimmee Valley extension of the FEC railroad.

Known as the Kissimmee Valley Branch and heading southwest from the busy railroad town of New Smyrna Beach, the new route passed through Maytown-Pennichaw-Osceola-Geneva and was completed to Chuluota in 1912.

Though it never achieved the status of 'a complete second mainline,' though it did post some impressive freight tonnage records in lumber and produce.

However, before it would be abandoned, the Peavy Wilson Lumber Company, operating a massive mill in Holopaw, leased the Holopaw-Pennichaw-Maytown trackage.

So trains continued to roll from Holopaw northward pulled by the lumber company’s stable of steam locomotives.