”Sand Town Settlement

This was a name derisively applied to the settlement between the two Elms and just north of the present Oak Grove church. Here the soil is very sandy and sub-irrigated. Two branches flow perpetually, Grassy Branch and Clear Branch. Here on these branches the Indians used to camp and spend the winters hunting and fishing. When not on the warpath with the whites they would trade dressed deer hides for corn, two bushels of corn for a hide, and no one could dress a hide so well as the Indian. He was an expert at the business. There was a log schoolhouse built in 1862, and around this the neighbors clustered. The schools were poor but were the best they could do at that time. Mr. William Robertson built a small steam mill on Running Branch just at the close of the war, and William Daniels built a stillhouse just above it. At that period Sand Town and Daniels’ still were known a great distance; Sand Town as a deception and the other for ‘white mule whiskey,’ which was the fighting kind and was a source of great annoyance to the settlement.

Roll call:  …Rev. Bill Ware,”

Reference Data:

History and Remininscences of Denton County Texas, by Edmond Franklin Bates, 1918, pages 55-6