Ehren was named by sawmill owners Frederick and Louis Muller; in their native German, Ehren means "place of honor." Its post office opened on Jan. 17, 1890, closed in 1950, and after burning and being rebuilt several times was once listed in Ripley's Believe It or Not! as the nation's smallest. By 1910 the community had a hotel and school along with the Ehren Pine Company Sawmill. In the vicinity in the mid 1800s, a stagecoach relay station called 26-mile House stood on the Brooksville-Tampa route. Survivors of this once bustling lumber town include Ehren and Mt. Carmel cemeteries and a bald cypress considered one of Florida's largest.