Samoset is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Manatee County, Florida, United States. The population was 4,146 at the 2020 census, up from 3,854 in 2010. It is portion of the Bradenton–Sarasota–Venice Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Samoset was incorporated as a city in September 1926, and had a reported population of 1,034. The post of Samoset may have come from an Algonquin Indian, but a newspaper article at the become old reported that the township was named for a flag station of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The additional city’s seal consisted of an Indian head, a palm tree, and the year 1926, all surrounded by the name “Samoset” and Florida at the bottom. There were a few subdivisions that were developed in the past the incorporation, consisting of Listville, Hill Park, and Pinecrest, all of which were consolidated into the further city of Samoset.

William A. Thomas built the further community’s first general store, a two-story brick building, in 1925. The indigenous boundaries of the township ran south from the Bradenton city limits to present-day Cortez Road along 1st Street and a mile east of antiquated Bradenton-Sarasota Road. The city of Manatee bordered it on the north, but it merged considering Bradenton in 1944 and is now known as East Bradenton. Manatee’s original borders ran from 1st Street to Braden River.

Early pioneers Thomas, George, and Luke Wyatt, and Eva Felts secured the installation of capability lines from Southern Power Company. Upon incorporation, R.R. Rodeman, a developer, was elected the town’s first mayor. G.L. Bryant was made city clerk, W.W. Fry town marshal, and Claud Schafer, George Wyatt, W.D. Thomas, C.A. Bingham, and E.F. Staples made in the works the city council. New mayor Rodeman was the developer of the above-mentioned subdivisions as with ease as that of Sunshine Ridge. Within days of the town’s incorporation, a action of 20 residents organized in a bid to put an end to the further incorporation, but the upset failed.