The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of Enoree.
Mountain Shoals Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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History · Enoree
Enoree’s post office opened in 1843, and 54% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the Mountain Shoals Plantation. Below: maps from 1969 on.
1843first post office
1on the National Register
54%homes built before 1940
1famous people
Quick answers
How Enoree began
When was Enoree founded?
1843
The Enoree post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Mountain Shoals (1837) and Hillsville (1891), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 687183 years
Founding year: the first Enoree post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Enoree’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Enoree are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Enoree’s homes were built before 1938.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Enoree, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1843: 183 years of Enoree.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Enoree’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Enoree’s post office has been open since 1843. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Mountain Shoals
Enoree
Hillsville
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Hillsville
Gone or out of use
McKees Milllocale
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Enoree
HannaVirginia
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Enoree, 1837 to 1969
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1837Post officeThe Mountain Shoals post office opens
- 1843Post officeThe Enoree post office opens
- 1886Post officeThe Mountain Shoals post office closes
- 1891Post officeThe Hillsville post office opens
- 1894
Born hereFrank Walker is born here - 20th century
- 1903Post officeThe Hillsville post office closes
- 1969
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Enoree on the map, 1969 to 1986
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Enoree. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1969Enoree sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Enoree.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Enoree
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1979
Mountain Shoals Plantation
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Federal1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Questions about Enoree’s history
What year was Enoree founded?
The Enoree post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What is on the National Register in Enoree?
One place: the Mountain Shoals Plantation (listed 1979).
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Sources
Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.