Ehren Community
Posted by: 
Markerman62
N 28° 15.640 W 082° 26.146
17R E 359164 N 3126913
In Ehren Cemetery located on Ehren Cemetery Rd.
Waymark Code: WMGY30
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2013
Views: 15
Named by sawmill owners Frederick and Louis Muller, Ehren means "place of honor" in their native German language. Its post office opened Jan. 17, 1890 and closed in 1950. Burned and rebuilt several times, the post office was once listed in Ripley's Believe It or Not! as the nation's smallest. By 1910 the community boasted a hotel and school along with Ehren Pine Company Sawmill. A stagecoach relay station--called 26-mile House--on the Brooksville-Tampa route was in the vicinity in the mid 1800s. Survivors of this once bustling lumbertown include Ehren and Mt. Carmel cemeteries, and a bald cypress considered one of Florida's largest.
Marker Number: 0
Date: 1993
County: Pasco
Marker Type: Roadside
Sponsored or placed by: The Pasco Board of County Commissioners and The Pasco County Historical Preservation Committee
Website: Not listed
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