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Holman is picturesquely situated on Pecan Creek, about thirteen miles southeast of La Grange on the La Grange - Weimar Valley road FM 155, two miles distant from the Colorado River in Mullins Prarie. The country is very rich and fertile backland Prarei. The population originally was German, Bohemian, and American with some of the first settlers being G.W. Lewis, Nat Holman, Jn. Ossina, Lott Fisher and the Seydler family.

Years ago Holman consisted of two stores, saloons, a blacksmith and a wheelwright shop. The had a gin that processed thousands of bales of cotton per year, a post office and the store where the present Holman Valley Steakhouse is was originally one of the first voting precincts in Fayette County nearly some 100 years ago.

One of the stores in Holman was originally called Vacek-Miksch. Holman General Merchandise which is the same building that the current Holman Valley Steakhouse is established. In the early 1900's there was a general store, saloon, pool hall and a dance hall all under one roof.

With a continued effort to keep the tradition, the Holman valley Steakhouse is owned and operated by fourth generation descendants of the Holman Valley, Judy and David Hajovsky. The Hajovsky family originally emigrated to Texas and the Holman Valley in the early 1880's from Moravia, Czechoslavakia.