Our neighborhood is known by a different name today, but many of the old timers still know what my neighborhood use to be called. I live in Owl Holler and there are no street signs or home address plaques that will carry this name. Most people only know my neighborhood by the name that is on the street sign now. From time to time, I can still find someone who recognizes the old name of Owl Holler.

I have a lot of childhood memories of my old neighborhood. It’s been a little hard for me to let go of these memories, so I still continue to live in Owl Holler today. That and plus the fact I still live at home with my parents; which makes it a lot cheaper on the wallet if you know what I mean.

I could order an address sign online with the name Owl Holler on it. It really wouldn’t serve much of a purpose. It wouldn’t help any postal workers or pizza delivery boys find my house any easier. They would only know how to find me by the official street name and number of my home and would be clueless to the name old timers gave this area many years ago.

I’m really not sure how they came up with the name. My neighborhood is in a holler, but in the 30+ years I have lived here, I could count on one hand to the number of owls I have seen here. Maybe a long time ago, there was a much bigger population of these feathered birds we refer to as owls or the common barn owl. Perhaps a series of barns were around and the population of barn owls was high in my neighborhood. We have a building on my property now we call a barn, but there are no owls making a home in it. At least none I have seen are trying to make a home in our barn.

As of today, I am one of the very few people still around which knows this area of North Georgia as Owl Holler. If I did decide to make up a few address plaques to carry the name of my old neighborhood, it would be more of a symbolic purpose than one that would serve any real meaning. I wonder if any of my current neighbors have thought about trying to bring back the old name of my neighborhood; which seems to be getting lost in history.