Couch, Texas, Karnes County. (original) (raw)

Photographer�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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