So let’s settle the debate about the naming of Cut and Shoot. I have talked to old timers that have lived here like forever and even they cannot agree with how the name came about. So I figured I would go to the bastion of truth Wikipedia and was directed to Texas State Historical Association. The explanation is on the internet so I KNOW it has got to be true.
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Cut and Shoot, TX
By: Robin N. Montgomery
Published: 1952
Updated: December 1, 1994
CUT AND SHOOT, TX. Cut and Shoot (Cut ‘n Shoot, Cut N Shoot) is six miles east of Conroe and forty miles north of Houston in eastern Montgomery County. It was apparently named after a 1912 community confrontation that almost led to violence. According to the different versions of the story, the dispute was either over the design of a new steeple for the town’s only church, the issue of who should be allowed to preach there, or conflicting land claims among church members. A small boy at the scene reportedly declared, “I’m going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!” The boy’s phrase apparently remained in residents’ minds and was eventually adopted as the town’s name. Population statistics were not reported for the community until the mid-1970s, when the number of residents was fifty. By 1980 the incorporated community reported a population of 809 and had built a new city hall and supported a school and several businesses. Cut and Shoot had a post office by the mid-1980s. The community’s population was reported as 903 in 1990. In 2000 the population was 1,158.
Baptist gone wild? Urban sprawl?
A bit of trivia: A couple years ago I thought about getting a box at the Cut-N-Shoot Post Office. Wait time was 3 years. Seems a lot of people think it is cool to send letters with a CNS address.
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