Samaria

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 3.8 mi west of Goodlow · Navarro County

Samaria sits on Farm Road 3096, four miles southeast of Kerens in southeastern Navarro County, probably settled before 1900. Its early school, with a hundred thirty-seven Black students enrolled in 1906, was itself named Goodnight, the name of the separate community that sits under half a mile away and is also carried on this list. Population has held near ninety since 2000.

The Texas Freedom Colonies Project counts Samaria 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: Toliver Cemetery, Colbert Cemetery, Gaines-Green Cemetery.

Among the places · On the map

From Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entries for Samaria and Goodnight, Navarro County (Christopher Long; Laurie E. Jasinski)..