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Caleb Holloway House
 
    Caleb Holloway (1801-1875) and wife Margaret Dean Holloway (1799-1887) were 
early settlers of Chambers County.  They first settled on lands at Oakbowery 
but sometime between 1850 and 1860, moved two miles west of LaFayette and 
established a plantation there.  The 1860 Chambers County census shows Caleb 
Holloway as a well-to do-planter with real estate valued at $15,000 and 44 
slaves.
    The Holloways most likely built this handsome Greek Revival house about 
1855.  Four square columns resting on masonry pillars across the front porch 
give the house a typical "old south" look.  Large double doors with sidelites 
and transom are at each end of a 12 ft. wide central hall.  Two large rooms 
approximately 18 ft. square with ceiling heights of 13 ft., are on each side of 
the hall.   Each room has a fireplace served by an exterior chimney.  Walls are 
of plaster and ceilings are of wide tongue and groove pine boards.  Wood trim 
and mantles are of good craftsmanship and typify the simpler lines found in 
Greek Revival architecture.  A back porch extends across the rear of this house 
with shed rooms at each end.  The original kitchen was in the back yard but has 
been destroyed.
    The Holloways had no children.  They chose to be buried on their property 
across the road from their home.  Tall, elaborate marble monuments enclosed 
within an ornate iron fence marked their final resting place for almost one 
hundred years.  Sadly, some demented person at the controls of a bulldozer all 
but obliterated this site.  Twisted pieces of iron fencing and huge blocks of 
marble lay askew in a large mound of dirt are all that remain of this once 
beautiful cemetery.  Hopefully this grand old house will meet a kinder fate.


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