Enon, Texas, AKA McPeek, Texas, Upshur County. (original) (raw)

Enon, Texas - Enon Cemetery, Texas

History in a Pecan Shell

Settled in the late 1840s around the the Enon Baptist Church (1848), a school was built sometime before 1900, and by 1906 there were two schools teaching just over 200 students. A post office named an early settler named McPeek was opened in 1903 and closed two years later.

Throughout the Great Depression, Enon kept enough people to still call itself a town but after WWII the residents moved and the school merged with the one in Harmony.

Today, the estimated population is 204.

Enon Tx Enon Baptist Church

TX Upshur County 1907 postal map

Upshur County 1907 postal map showing McPeek
NW of Gilmer
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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