History in a
Pecan Shell
Settlement began just prior to the Civil War when several
families from Georgia brought their slaves and built plantations on adjoining
plots.
Land was donated for a church, school and cemetery. The agrarian
community had no businesses other than the basic grist mills and cotton
gins.
Ebenezer
lived in quiet solitude, relying on nearby Pittsburg
for its groceries and goods. Ebenezer’s history consists mainly of the chronological
history of the community schools. Consolidation in the mid 1950s ended that story
when schools merged with those in Pittsburg.
The
population was estimated at a mere sixty residents in the late 1960s, shrinking
to 55 in the 1980s. That number has been used through the 2000 census. | 
