Freestone County, Texas
Communities


Old Ghost Towns - Never had a post office:

Old Springseat

The Old Springseat community was located about a quarter mile from the county
line that separated Freestone and Leon counties.  Old Springseat was about two 
miles southeast of Donie and thus also two miles east of the Trinity and Brazos 
Valley railroad. A quarter mile to the south was Zion and about a mile to the 
north was New Springseat.  The land is drained by Alligator Creek on the east
and south and Silver Creek on the west.  Old Springseat was a traditionally 
African-American community.

Church:
Old Springseat Baptist Church 
  (started about 1860s?, existed in 1918, burned by arsonists in 1999) 


Springseat School:
42 African-American students in 1887
30 African-American pupils in 1891-2
21 African-American kids enrolled in 1893-4





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Fairfield Recorder newspaper - February 18, 1999 edition

BLAZE DESTROYS BLACK CHURCH, ATF INVESTIGATORS SUMMONED

One of Freestone county's oldest churches, which served black parishioners, 
fell victim to suspected arson Saturday night, launching an investigation 
involving county, state and federal agencies.

Firefighters were called about 10:30 p.m. to the Old Springseat Baptist Church
near Donie, too late to save the structure from complete destruction, says 
Capt. H.D. Whitaker of the Freestone county sheriff's department.

Northwestern Resources employees, who were working on a bucket wheel excavator,
called the Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department and reported the fire.

The church and its attached cemetery are located on the old Donie Buffalo road
near the Leon county line.

The area is almost completely surrounded by Northwestern Resources mining 
operations, which has recently deeded five acres to the church and cemetery 
and were in the process of building a fence around the area.