Spring Hill Freedom Colony (Spring Hill Freedom Colony)

Falls County, TX

Status: Located

Year Established: 1883

Council of Governments: HOTCOG

Public History: Spring Hill, a rural community three miles southeast of Marlin, was named for a spring near a hilly bank of the Brazos River that Indians had used for a campsite and that early immigrants had used for watering stock. The Spring Hill Church was holding services at the site in 1948, and the 1948 county highway map showed the church, a school, and several residences at the community. No evidence of Spring Hill was shown on maps of the area in the 1980s.

Community History: According to the cornerstone, Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church was built in 1883 and rebuilt in 1967.

Church: Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church