Texarkana history from both sides of the state line: the people, places, crimes, wars and turning points that shaped the Twin Cities, Bowie County and Miller County.
On Nov. 12, 1925, Texarkana, Texas, dedicated its four-story Municipal Building with a parade and banquet. Four months later, the city offered it to Bowie County as a courthouse.
In November 1936, a women's group called the Texarkana Memorial Unit put up a World War I monument in Sheppard Park honoring the dead of Bowie and Miller counties. Here is what it says, who is on it and what is still unknown.
Howard Stone was 17 and wanted to join the Coast Guard when he walked into the recruiting office in Texarkana, Texas, in the spring of 1943. He never found the Coast Guard’s door. “I went in the first door I…
Thomas Dew was 14 when he lied about his age to get into the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1940. The government paid him $27 a month to plant trees and fight forest fires on the north shore of Lake Superior.…
George Barmes was shot down over North Korea in 1953, came home through Panmunjom and later taught math in Foreman, Fouke, Hooks and Redwater.
Cpl. Otis Henry of Texarkana died of wounds in France on Oct. 6, 1918, with the 90th Division. Thirteen years later, his mother put up the doughboy monument, with an angel and a mourner at its base, that still marks his grave at Rose Hill Cemetery.
Texas Adjutant General W. H. Mabry ordered Texarkana's volunteer company raised in 1898. Months later, with his family living here, he died near Havana. Disease, not battle, killed most of the Americans who died in that war.
Texarkana, Texas, will dedicate a state historical marker at City Hall at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, recognizing the 101-year-old building at 220 Texas Blvd. as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. The short ceremony will be held on the front…
In the late summer of 1862, disease swept a Confederate camp at Rondo, east of Texarkana. Eighty-five men lie there in a common grave, unnamed. In the 1930s, a Texarkana women's group and Rep. Effiegene Wingo got them 17 government stones, one for every five.
Evan Thomas Watson was at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered in 1781. He died in 1834 on the Red River in what is now northern Bowie County, then claimed by Arkansas Territory. Where he is buried is uncertain, but his descendants say the family's own records point to the Red River homestead, not to the Sulphur River land now under Wright Patman Lake.
In October 1895, a title fight chased out of Texas landed Bob Fitzsimmons in handcuffs at Texarkana, then at supper with a pet lion outside.
In 1942, crews laid the Big Inch, then the biggest oil pipeline ever built, through southern Miller County and across the Red River near Garland. Here's the route, the Hope boom and John Vachon's photos of the men who built it.
PRESCOTT, Ark. — The thunder of cannon fire will roll across Nevada County again this fall as Civil War Weekend returns to the Prairie D’Ane Battlefield with a full reenactment of the 1864 battle. The Nevada County Depot Museum will…
The City of Texarkana, Texas will dedicate a new historical marker recognizing the Freeman-Custis Red River Expedition of 1806 during a ceremony on Friday, May 15 at 10:00 a.m. The marker will be installed in Sheppard Park, across from the…
The City of Texarkana, Texas, is proud to announce the 100th anniversary of its historic City Hall building, a cornerstone of civic life since 1925. To commemorate this milestone, the City will host a celebratory evening on Monday, November 10th,…
