Sand Branch (Sandbranch)

Dallas County, TX

Status: Located

Year Established: 1900

Council of Governments: NCTCOG

Public History: Interviews with descendants about their origins and the early families of the community can be found in an article from “The Lost Community of Sandbranch,” an article from 1985 D Magazine (https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1985/september/the-lost-community-of-sandbranch/): “‘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.’”

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/sand-branch-tx
Sand Branch is a small community located about fourteen miles southeast of downtown Dallas in southeastern Dallas County. The town, situated between the Trinity River and Hickory Creek, was possibly named for the area geography. Sand Branch existed by the latter decades of the twentieth century. In 2000 the population was 400.

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Cemetery: Sand Branch

Church: Sand Branch Church/Mount Zion Baptist Church