Sandy Point Cemetery

The cemetery lies on former sugar and cotton plantation land, which before 1865 meant enslaved labor. The Handbook of Texas says it holds graves of soldiers from the Texas Revolution, the Mier Expedition and the Civil War. The town beside it kept a post office from 1854 into the 1930s and counted 250 people in 1884, 100 in 1914 and about ninety in the late 1940s. During Reconstruction a Freedmen's Bureau agent worked in the county, and federal troops were stationed at Sandy Point and at Brazoria. The plaque itself gives only a founding date and a 2003 designation.

What the plaque says

Sandy Point Cemetery Sandy Point Cemetery Established circa 1850 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2003

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brazos Bend State Park — 7.1 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.
• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 17 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.
• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 24 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — 25 mi
  The oldest art museum in Texas, grown from a 1900 schoolroom art league into a campus of Watkin, Mies van der Rohe and later buildings, with Ima Hogg's Bayou Bend up the bayou.

More markers nearby

• Albert Sidney Johnston — 4.8 mi
• Duke Community — 9.4 mi
• The Fitzgerald and Fenn Families — 9.4 mi
• Site of "Orozimbo" — 10 mi