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ROACH, TX (GREGG COUNTY)

ROACH, TEXAS (Gregg County). Roach was a short-lived post office seven miles west of Longview near the site of what is now White Oak in north central Gregg County. A post office operated there from 1881 to 1882. The small community, which at one time had a mill and a store, was no longer shown on maps by 1900.

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Christopher Long, "ROACH, TX (GREGG COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrrlg), accessed May 28, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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