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Sunny Point Community

According to "The Handbook of Texas Online" as found at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/hrsmf.html

SUNNY POINT, TEXAS. Sunny Point, a farming community off Farm Road 275 fifteen miles southwest of Sulphur Springs in southwestern Hopkins County, was settled before 1900. A public school was operating there by the early 1900s, and in 1905 it had thirty students enrolled. During the mid-1930s Sunny Point consisted of the school, a church, a cemetery, and a number of scattered houses. After World War II most of its residents moved away. The school was consolidated with the Cumby school district, and by the early 1960s all that remained was the cemetery and a few houses. During the late 1980s it was a dispersed rural community.

Christopher Long

Additional information about the area has been compiled from research and interviews conducted by the developer of this website. Feel free to share the stories you have regarding the community. Together we can share information about this little known community. Sunny Point Community is considered a "Vanished Community" however if we share our stories and pictures it will not be a forgotten community.

Mr. George Romans, Mr. Thomas J. Evans and Mr. Thomas "Mack" Wilson were instrumental in getting the school started at Sunny Point. The school was located on land donated for school use across the street from Sunny Point Cemetery. The land was returned to the ownership of George Romans after the school was combined with the Cumby Independent School District. The exact date the school was combined with Cumby is unknown.

The pavillion that now stands on the corner across from the cemetery was were the school children played basketball and is now part of the cemetery. The facility is now used for First Saturday in May memorial service and annual meeting of the Sunny Point Cemetery Association.

The school was a two-room building with 2 teachers. Church services were held in the school building. There was an organ in the school for use during church services and programs. When the bellows on the organ wore out the community collected money and purchased a new organ as finding a repairman was very difficult. Theological students from Burleson College in Greenville, Texas came to Sunny Point to preach. The church was referred to as "Union Church" and was non-denominational as there were varying religious denominations in the area.

The surrounding communities and villages would hold "Exhibitions". Each school was about six miles apart. The people in the area would attend each other's exhibitions. The first night was usually filled with programs put on by the elementary age children. The second night was a 2-hour play. Families would pack food for dinner on the ground. Large families would pack their food in a trunk, the bottom being used for food and the tray in the trunk was used to hold pies and cakes.

 

 

 


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