Many residents moved elsewhere after World War II, and the church and scattered houses from the mid-1930s were the only things that remained in the settlement.

[2] Mexican land grants were given to colonists under the leadership of Empresario Joseph Vehlein in this region in the late 1820s and 1830s, but the real growth didn't start until after the Civil War when people relocated here from states torn apart by conflict to profit from the burgeoning cotton and cattle industries.

It also had a general store, barbershop, blacksmith shop, gristmill, cotton gin, Woodman hall, and shingle mill.

The economy suffered during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it recovered as a result of projects carried out by the Federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA), which in the late 1930s gave many locals jobs.

[3] Arbor is located on Farm to Market Road 232 at Chisholm Loop,[3] 10 mi (16 km) east of Crockett in southeastern Houston County.