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History
in a Pecan Shell
Settlers began arriving in the 1840s and
the community was first called Grittersville, after one of the first businesses
- a steam-powered gristmill. In 1879 the town began receiving mail and the population
increased during the 1880s. Residents decided they needed a better name and so
the men who had built the gristmill ( J. F. and William Gober) were so honored.
The population was a healthy 250 by 1890. Gober's industrial base was
helped by a quarrying business. The population reached its high-water mark of
300 around the start of the Great Depression and it subsequently declined - reaching
about 200 by the mid-1950s. Gober had a population of 246 in the mid-1960s which
has since declined to the current estimate of 146. | |
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