Chronology

Eno and Little River form a charge of their own, apart from Hawfields and Cross Roads

When Jacob Lake left about 1790, the old Pattillo field was split: Hawfields and Cross Roads shared one pastor, and Eno and Little River another. The two Orange churches were still paired when the history was written, apart from short breaks.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church · Little River Presbyterian Church

James H. Bowman becomes pastor of Eno and Little River

Bowman took the Eno and Little River charge and held it for about twenty years, gathering many members during the revival that began in 1802. His ministry at Eno ended in 1815.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church · Little River Presbyterian Church

Samuel Paisley begins an eighteen-year pastorate at Eno

Paisley followed Bowman in 1816 and stayed until he moved to Moore County in 1834. He was buried in the Old Eno cemetery.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

A revival brings many new members into Eno Church

Five years into Samuel Paisley's pastorate, a revival added many people to the Eno congregation.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Eno Church reports 59 white and 11 Black communicants, in its oldest surviving records

The 1822 session minutes, the earliest Eno records that survive, copy the church's articles of faith and covenant, and that year's report to presbytery counts 70 communicants, 11 of them Black.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Archibald Currie begins a twenty-year pastorate at Eno

After twelve years of short-term ministers, Eno called Archibald Currie, who served until 1866 and returned briefly in 1895-1896. His son James L. Currie later held the same pulpit.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Eno Church elects its first deacons

The session noted in October 1873 that the church had no deacons and held an election the next month. Robert W. Anderson and J. P. Forrest were ordained that year.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Eno Presbyterian dedicates its third church at the old site

Built in 1878 under James L. Currie, the frame church replaced earlier log and frame buildings near the Old Eno cemetery. Orange Presbytery met there the same year, with D. I. Craig preaching the opening sermon.

People: James L. Currie · D. I. (David Irwin) Craig

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Eno pastor W. F. Wilhelm dies at the manse in Hillsborough, months after the church burns

A few months after the forest fire that destroyed Eno Church, its pastor W. F. Wilhelm died at Hillsborough on October 24, 1893, after a long fever, which the church's history calls typhoid. He also served the Hillsborough, Little River and Fairfield churches. Every business in town closed for his funeral on October 26, and he was buried near the front door of the Hillsborough Presbyterian church.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church · Hillsborough Presbyterian Church

Robert W. Anderson is the first person buried in Eno Church's new cemetery at Cedar Grove

After the congregation moved to Cedar Grove, a new burying ground opened beside the church being built on the A. T. Finley lot. Robert W. Anderson, an elder, was its first burial.

Part of Cedar Grove and rural northern Orange · 201 events

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

M. C. Arrowood organizes the North Eno Presbyterian Church

While pastor of Eno from 1905 to 1910, Arrowood, who came from the Burlington church, organized two new congregations, North Eno and Efland.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Eno Presbyterian adds to its Cedar Grove church and remodels it almost completely

During C. D. Whiteley's pastorate, a time of growth for the congregation, an addition was built and the 1890s building was remodeled so thoroughly that the book likens it to a new church.

Part of Cedar Grove and rural northern Orange · 201 events

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Eno Church women organize a Woman's Auxiliary at the manse

Pastor C. D. Whiteley presided at the meeting that formed the auxiliary, later renamed Women of the Church.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

J. Walter Mann, a son of Hawfields Church, is ordained and installed pastor of Eno

Mann began preaching at Eno as stated supply in the spring of 1926 and was ordained and installed that October. Forty-eight members joined during his fifteen years, and his wife, Esther Covington Mann, led much of the women's work.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Eno Church holds what it believes was Orange County's first daily vacation Bible school

Eno held the school with Cedar Grove Methodist Church. Summer Bible school became a lasting part of the church's work and was later held at Camp New Hope.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Eno Presbyterian Church marks its two hundredth anniversary

The congregation held a bicentennial program counting from 1755, and Annie H. Hughes brought the church history up to date for it.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Eno Church and the Schley Grange restore the Old Eno Cemetery, and a state highway marker goes up

In 1964 Eno Church, helped by the Schley Grange, cleared and restored the Old Eno Cemetery and set a bronze plaque on a boulder where the first church stood. A state highway marker for Old Eno Church and Cemetery followed, erected in 1965 by the Department of Archives and History, and was dedicated with Synod executive Harold Dudley present.

Subject: Eno Presbyterian Church

Seven Orange County Presbyterian churches form a cooperative in place of the Eno cluster

A four-church cluster of Eno, Efland, Fairfield and Bethlehem was dissolved in 1975 and replaced by a cooperative of seven: those four plus Hillsborough, Little River and New Hope. The churches worked together especially on youth programs.