Cuney is a town in northwest Cherokee County. It was once known as Andy, Texas after the first black landowner in the area Andrew Bragg. The real community appeared in 1902 when Texas and New Orleans Railroad made the settlement a flag stop. In 1914, H.L. Price and some local investors formed a development company and platted a townsite. They named the town Cuney after Price’s son, Cuney Price, who had been named for Norris Wright Cuney, a prominent black politician and head of the Republican party in Texas. In 1917, a post office was awarded and by the early 1920s, the town had two general stores, a blacksmith shop, several cotton gins, a school, a drugstore, and a hotel. Cuney was incorporated in 1983 and it became the first incorporated black community in Cherokee County.
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