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Couch, Texas TodayPhotographer’s
Note:
“Located about
1-2 miles north of the town of Choate, this sign
is about all there is of a reminder of the community of Couch. Most residents
now consider themselves part of the Choate Community.”
- Will
Beauchamp, October 10, 2009
History
in a Pecan Shell
D. F. Couch, is the town’s namesake. He won the honor by luring Oklahoman
settlers here in the early 1890s. The community was also known as "The Oklahoma
Settlement” for many years.
Andrew J. Harryman platted a town on 18 acres
of his land here.
The town had a store, hotel, public school and church
by the mid 1890s and a post office opened in 1896. The highway between Goliad
and Kenedy was rerouted some two miles S of the
town and Couch’s post office was merged with the one in Runge
in 1909.
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