Choice, Texas

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'''Choice''' is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Texas, United States.<ref>{{GNIS|1379547}}</ref>

==History== A post office called Choice was established in 1904, and remained in operation until 1954.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=5 January 2017}}</ref> According to tradition, the community's name stems from the literal reading of a postal form's instruction to "pick your choice".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=27|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=23}}</ref>

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{{Shelby County, Texas}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Shelby County, Texas Category:Unincorporated communities in Texas

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