Goodlow

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 1.2 mi north of Kerens · Navarro County

Goodlow sits on State Highway 309 just south of Kerens, established around 1900 on land belonging to Harry Goodlow. It grew as a Black community; by the mid-1930s it held two churches, two schools and a number of houses, and its schools consolidated into Kerens's after the Second World War. When Kerens declined to annex it, Goodlow incorporated on its own in 1978 and remains incorporated today, a hundred seventy-eight people as of the 2020 census.

The Texas Freedom Colonies Project counts Goodlow 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: Goodlow Cemetery, Jimmerson Cemetery, William F Bowen Cemetery, Mary C Martin Cemetery, Kerens Cemetery, Toliver Cemetery · Markers: Kerens Presbyterian Church, Josiah Martin Daniel, Kerens.

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From Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entry for Goodlow, Navarro County; USGS GNIS feature 1388186, filed as Goodlow Park..