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Special edition December 2025 Holly Bros. ‘handkäse’ once a Souderton staple   Editor’s note: The historical society earlier this year was contacted by a writer from Lancaster Farming, a weekly agricultural newspaper based in Ephrata, Lancaster County, looking for information on Holly Bros. Hand Cheese — a Souderton landmark in earlier decades. The society was able to provide information on the business and participate in the placing of a historical marker in September. We thought our readers would enjoy the resulting article, which was published in October. So here is a holiday special edition of our Gazette, with thanks to Lancaster Farming for permission to reprint the piece written by its correspondent Sue Bowman. Sept. 13 was a red-letter day in Souderton, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: A ceremony at the borough’s Holly’s Hill Park unveiled a new 3-by-4-foot interpretive sign commemorating the Holly brothers and their cheese factory, which once stood on the site....