Cuney
Brazos County, TX
Status: Located
Year Established: Unknown
Council of Governments: BVCOG
Public History: Several recent articles have brought attention to the clean water crisis, as well as efforts to bring clean water to the community.
Current Environmental Crisis (Sept 2022) https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/no-water-for-decades-but-non-profit-hoping-bring-advanced-tech-dallas-community-makes-drinking-water-from-air/287-c0993753-2552-4d4d-b778-ec340a15d75a
Hydropanels bring safe driving water (Oct 2022). https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/hydro-panels-provide-safe-drinking-water-alternatives-to-community/3086569/
Community History: Interviews with descendants of founders about their origins and early families of the community are found in this 1985 D magazine article,
“This is the third Sandbranch,” Armstrong Devro said, shelling his garden peas under a huge oak in front of the house he built 40 years ago, two blocks north of Seagoville’s old main street. “My folks came on the train in 1900 to Hutchins from Navasota. Sharecroppers. They settled on Charlie Cobb’s 7,000 acres two miles south of this house. Land was $2.50 an acre and one acre gave you two bales of cotton. We so poor we couldn’t even buy that.” During an afternoon ride, Armstrong Devro pointed out where he was born in 1904 in the first community named Sandbranch, four miles south of Seagoville where the B & M Sand and Gravel Co. drag lines are digging away.”
Source: https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1985/september/the-lost-community-of-sandbranch/