Not all the changes were popular, (I remember crying when four, 99-year-old trees were chopped down) but I guess that is progress. I don’t have space to list all of the changes, but here are the highlights.
The Apple Butter Festival used to be held next to the Adena Mound. Now it’s around Enon Elementary with its improved parking lots and terrific playground. Across from the school is Settler’s Park, with that lovely gazebo.
Twenty years ago on that corner, there was a gasoline station that had been converted to a used car dealership. (We got two cars there.) The big modern Rite Aid currently next door replaced a restaurant, a row of houses and a street.
The mound never changes, but the Indian Mound Library is now the Enon Community Historical Society. The nearby Enon village offices have been remodeled and expanded. To the east on Main Street, a new church is nearing completion.
To the west of the village offices, the new Enon Branch Library is in the building that was once Rite Aid.
Across the street is the fairly new Enon–Mad River Twp. firehouse, which also houses the EMS and township offices.
Right turns are still not allowed on red at Enon’s one stoplight.
Twenty years ago we didn’t have a Subway, Foxes Pizza, barbershop, Tonya’s or Kim’s doughnuts in the center of town, but Pizza and Company was as great as ever. A 24-hour Speedway station has replaced a smaller gasoline station. The post office is in the same place.
There is now a sidewalk down Xenia Road so that students can walk to either the middle or elementary schools.
Changes at Indian Valley Middle School are major. The new front entrance, library, offices, huge gym, bright new sign and a new roof made Indian Valley the nicest school in our district about 12 years ago. The school board offices took over a wing of Indian Valley.
Up the hill beyond the VFW, sites for hundreds of new homes have been approved. Some day our community will extend up there.
Huge changes took place just west of Enon’s center. Historic Knob Prairie Church added a second floor addition that included an elevator. The Dock Restaurant, Dominos, and a bunch of other businesses and offices have opened. The Enon water tower now sports a topping of cell phone equipment. Enon Emergency Relief has a roomier headquarters. Atkins Funeral Home saved a grand historical building. Merrill’s closed but Stacey’s Carpet opened. Enon Church of Christ has a new front.
And who can forget the West Enon sewer hook up project? I know the residents of that area will not. The improvements of Main Street were soon after that and the widening of Stine Road, too.
At Dayton and Stine roads, MacDonald’s replaced an older BP station. And the cornfields around Howard’s IGA filled with WesBanco, Legends, The Drug Mart shopping plaza and two lovely neighborhoods of condos. Across the street Aqua Falls, and more businesses and offices have been built.
Near Snider Road we have a United Dairy Farmers, a church and a township garage that occupies the former state inspection station. More houses were built in Hunter’s Glen. Two lovely campuses offer assisted living for seniors. Enon water lines now run all the way to I-675.
While putting this list together it occurred to me that if some folks don’t think things have changed in Enon in the past 20 years, perhaps that means we must be doing something right.
The town is improving, yet it is staying the same and keeping the same atmosphere. For those of us who chose this corner of Clark County over communities in Greene, Montgomery and Miami counties, this is good news.
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