Sandies-Dewville Community

Before there was a town, settlers in the 1830s met near the confluence of McCoy and Sandies creeks for camp meetings, and the Sandies Chapel Methodist Church grew out of them in 1842. Its building burned twice, about 1851 and again in the late 1870s, and was rebuilt both times. A cemetery was laid out across from the church in the 1850s, and the community briefly had its own post office during the Civil War. By 1876 the Sandies Chapel School was meeting in the church. Some later maps call the surviving burial ground Sandy Chapel Cemetery.

What the plaque says

Sandies-Dewville Community Sandies was settled in the 1830s by members of Green DeWitt's Colony. A church (1842), Masonic Lodge (1858), and school were established. Tom and Frank Dew opened their store and gin one mile from Sandies in 1886. A post office opened in 1894 at the new community of Dewville. After Mrs. C. C. Vernor platted the townsite in 1897, the church and school relocated. Dewville's population dwindled after World War II, and the post office closed in 1955. Today, a cemetery marks the site of Sandies, while the Methodist church and the I.O.O.F. Cemetery remain in Dewville. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 29 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.

More markers nearby

• Dewville United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi
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