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Brushie Prairie

Navarro County, Texas

Brushie Prairie, spelled Brushy Prairie in the Handbook of Texas, sits on Farm Road 1578, eighteen miles west of Corsicana in northwest Navarro County. It was established before 1900 with two segregated schools, sixty-five white and fifty-four Black students in the early 1900s, and had a gin, a blacksmith, a church and stores by the mid-1930s. Its schools consolidated into Frost's after the Second World War, and the community had dispersed by 2009.

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

Also within two miles. Burying grounds: McCord Cemetery · Markers: Brushie Prairie Methodist Church.

Among the places · On the map

From Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entry for Brushy Prairie, Navarro County (Christopher Long); USGS GNIS feature 1378059, filed as Brushie Prairie..