Babylon

Navarro County, Texas

Founded around 1895 by formerly enslaved people, who built a church and named it, and the settlement, for the ancient city, a name with clear weight to its founders. A school followed by 1900; residents did their trading in Dawson, Purdon or Spring Hill. Both church and school closed, most people left after the Second World War, and by the early 1990s only a few scattered houses remained.

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Source: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entry for Babylon, Navarro County (Christopher Long, 1994)..