Enon is an unincorporated community in eastern Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States.

The community, which is centered on Enon Baptist Church, is in the Forbush Township and in the East Bend ZIP code zone (27018).

[2] Native Americans were living along the Yadkin River at Enon going back to at least the early Woodland period (500 B.C.-100 A.D.), according to a 1998 archeological survey.

The fertile river bottoms began to draw a few European settlers who followed the Great Wagon Road in the mid-18th century.

By 1850, the area included large plantations along the Yadkin River, which were dependent on slave labor, as well as a few smaller farms.

Glen spent his early career as a slave trader and land broker, helping set up plantations in Mississippi.

Glen's papers are available through Duke University Libraries and have been cited in recent books on the Civil War period.

Prominent visitors included Nathan Rudolphus., the son of Sen. Stephen A. Douglas; North Carolina Gov.

In April 1863, Glen's rants against secession angered the officers, who instigated a plot to lure him from Glenwood and hang him as a traitor.

The officers' plot was stopped by heavy rains that washed away the bridge at Deep Creek, and Glen returned to his home.

For weeks, long tables were erected at each side of the house and family members and the few remaining freedmen gave food to all who stopped.

Many of the Jarratt family papers, including letters and slave receipts, are located in the library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 1936, High Point began an ill-fated plan to build an 85-foot (26 m) deep lake and hydroelectric dam in an area that included portions the community.

High Point bought up more than 14,000 acres (57 km2) along the Yadkin River for the Styers Ferry dam project and had spent about $1 million before it was stopped by the courts.

[17] Until recently, many Enon residents lived on family farms, and the area remained primarily rural.