Babylon

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 3.4 mi south-west of Dawson · Navarro County

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.

The Texas Freedom Colonies Project counts Babylon among the eleven freedom colonies of Navarro County, the communities freedpeople built after emancipation. Field Note 008, The forks of the creek →

Among the places · On the map

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