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History
in a Pecan Shell
Settled by cotton farmers around 1889. When the time came to open
a post office the town wanted to be named after General
Frederick Funston, Spanish American War Hero. Saddened to discover
that Funston had already been so honored in Texas, the town settled
on the more earthy name of Grit - said to be the texture of the local
soil.
The post office opened in 1901, the first store opened around 1903,
and the town had its first school building in 1908.
The Baptist church met in the Grit school until it built its own building
in1924. Telephone service began around 1914 when the town had 30 people.
It remained at 30 until the 1960s when 63 people lived in Grit. This
number held into the mid 80s, but it has since declined back to the
1914 level of 30 citizens. The post office has since been discontinued,
but Grit remains on state maps.
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