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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Pioneer (Eastland County), Ranchita (Cameron County),
Ranger (Eastland County), Rangerville (Cameron County),
Rio Grande City (Starr County), Roundup (Hockley County),
Sulphur Bluff (Hopkins County), Texas City (Galveston Coun-
ty), Texon (Reagan County).
Church disputes and incidents were not overlooked. Cut'n
Shoot (Montgomery County), not listed in the 1950 census, took
its name from a community disagreement concerning the pattern
of a new church steeple. Take your choice of two early traditions
for Direct (Lamar County) : (1) that the Indians across the river
were coming there "direct for whiskey"; (2) that a revivalist
thought the local people were going "straight to hell." The local
church at Direct was built with money donated by a converted
saloonkeeper. First called Shortview, Noonday (Harrison Coun-
ty), which had no settlement in 1940o, was so called in 1876 after a
meeting held at high noon at the Baptist Church to select a new
name. Haskell (Haskell County) is chiefly interesting because
in the 188o's a saloon, known as the "Road to Ruin," was also
used as a church. Keene (Johnson County) postoffice, established
about 1905, is unique in that it is closed on Saturday and open
on Sunday. The town is principally a community (population
350) of Seventh-Day Adventists.
Random examples of towns with a foreign or racial influence:
Fedor (Lee County), settled by Wends, is one of the most impor-
tant Wendish communities in the state. Danevang (Wharton
County), "flat country where the Danes live," was founded in
1904 by the Danish Folk Society of America. Velasco (Brazoria
County) is cited in the Handbook under "Jewry in Texas" as
being the first permanent settlement of Jews in Texas. Jacob
Henry, from England, and Jacob Lyons, from Charleston, South
Carolina, had already established themselves in the mercantile
business when Abraham C. Labatt (active participant in 1825 in
the foundation of the first Reform Jewish Congregation in the
United States) visited Velasco in 1831. Israel (Polk County),
founded in 1895 by a sect known as Israelites, had only a few
families in 1946. The most successful of French colonization
projects was that of Castroville (Medina County), founded in
1844 by Henri Castro. Panna Maria (Karnes County), said to be
the mother of Polish settlements in Texas, was established in
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