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What remains
of a state historical marker.
Photo
courtesy Ken
Rudine , July 2007 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
In a Texas Revolutionary
footnote, Sandy Point is believed to be where Mexican General Cos
learned of Santa Anna's defeat at San
Jacinto. The most noteworthy site in the area is the cemetery
which had once been part of a huge plantation. Revolutionary soldiers,
survivors of the Mier
Expedition and Civil War troops are interred here.
The community had its own post office from 1854 through 1930. The
population in the mid 1880s was a healthy 250 residents. Sugar refining
and cotton ginning were the economic engines. It declined to a mere
100 by 1914 but rose again to 200 where it stayed until after WWII.
It fell to less than 100 in the late 1940s and then to a mere 30 by
1970 - the same figure that is used for the 2000 census. |
Historical Marker:
FM 521 about 3 miles N of Rosharon
Sandy Point
Cemetery
Early county cemetery.
Started before 1845. Land once part of great sugar and cotton plantations.
Buried in this tract are veterans of 1836 Texas Revolution and Civil
War (1861-65); also members of ill-fated Mier
Expedition. Col. B. F. Terry, organizer of Terry's
Texas Rangers, was formerly buried here.
(1970) |
1907 postal
map showing Sandy Point in northern Brazoria
County
From Texas state map #2090
Courtesy
Texas General Land Office |
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