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Enloe,
Texas Main Street, 1897
Photo
courtesy Jeff Duncan, Clara Foster Slough Museum |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Enloe began with the building of a church here in 1888, but it wasn’t officially
a proper town until nine years later when space was donated to the railroad
by J. A. Enloe. Also in 1897, the town opened a post office under Enloe’s name.
The population at that time was reported to be around 100 residents.
Seven
years later the town counted 273 residents and the Enloe Baptists rebuilt their
church. 1914 reported 400 Enloens and a telephone system.
The town had
most essential businesses and two cotton gins and the population had grown to
450 by 1929. Seven years later the number of people had decreased to 265.
Increased factory work for the WWII
war effort drained off more of Enloe’s workforce and by the mid 1950s less than
200 people lived here. This figure fell to just 150 for the mid 1960s and was
given as 125 for the 2000 Census. |
Round
Bale Gin in Enloe Texas, early 1900's
Postcard
courtesy Jeff Duncan, Clara Foster Slough Museum
More on Cotton
& Texas Cotton Gins |
Enloe
High School 6 man football team in 1938
Photo
courtesy Joe Wooten |
Enloe
High School Junior Varsity, 1938
Photo
courtesy Joe Wooten |
Enloe,
Texas 4th of July parade preparations. Lane Duncan prepares his Texas T-Rex pulling
tractor at the Clara Foster Slough Museum, prior to the 2009 Enloe 4th of July
parade.
Photo
courtesy Jeff Duncan, Clara Foster Slough Museum |
Clara
Foster Slough Museum exhibits, in Enloe, Texas
Photo
courtesy Jeff Duncan, Clara Foster Slough Museum
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Museums |
Enloe, Texas
ForumSubject:
Enloe photos
I
have a couple of old pictures of the Enloe High School 6 man football team in
1938. I do not remember where I got them, but I bet Mr. Duncan who runs the Enloe
museum would like them. I also do not have any names of the boys on each squad.
- Joe Wooten, February 24, 2012Subject:
Enloe, Texas images
Greetings
and congratulations on a great website!!! We recently discovered your Texas
Escapes site and find the information very interesting and helpful in Texas
research. We will be including your site as a link on the Enloe
Museum page (http://enloemuseum.blogspot.com/), for our visitors to view and
explore. Here are a few images and old photos from the Clara Foster Slough Museum
in Enloe, Texas for your Enloe page. Thanks, Jeff Duncan, Clara Foster Slough
Museum, February 03, 2012
Texas
Escapes, in its purpose to preserve
historic, endangered and vanishing Texas, asks that anyone wishing to share their
local history, stories, and/or vintage/historic photos, please contact
us. |
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