Answers to Go with Susan Smith

Q. Where is the Antioch Colony?

A. The Antioch Colony is a Hays County community established in the 1870s by freed slaves. It is located off farm roads 967 and 1626 northwest of Buda.

In the “Handbook of Texas,” Laurie Jasinski writes: “Antioch Colony remained an active farming community into the 1930s and 1940s. Social life centered around the school and church, which had some 70 to 80 members. By the mid-1950s, however, most residents had moved away in search of better jobs. The community became almost a ghost town of ramshackle structures and overgrown homesteads.