From The Handbook of Texas.
“Warlock,
formerly known as Ero, is on Farm Road 729 eighteen miles northwest of
Jefferson in northwestern Marion County. Ero was built as a railway station on
the Port Bolivar Iron Ore Railroad in 1912. The railroad was projected to run
from Longview to a point seventy miles to the north, but the company ran out of
funds and never built beyond Ero, a distance of some thirty miles from
Longview. The railroad was abandoned in 1927. In the 1930s Ero had two
businesses, two churches, and two school buildings with a total of six
classrooms known collectively as Warlock School. In 1937 the Warlock schools
were attended by a daily average of fifty-two black elementary students taught
by two teachers and fifty-six black high school students taught by one teacher.
The schools were consolidated with Lassater schools by 1952. In 1961 the
community was called Warlock and had a church and several scattered dwellings.
In 1983 Warlock had a church and a club house.”
The Texas Almanac says: “Our
records indicates the town of Warlock no longer exists.”
None of the sites visited
explained why the community was once called Ero, nor why the name was changed
to Warlock. Another mystery of East Texas, perhaps.
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