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 Texarkana is unique in that it straddles two states on either side of State Line Avenue: Texas and Arkansas.
Even its U.S. Post Office downtown has a state line running through the middle of the lobby of the building!
We've spent considerable time in Texarkana over the years, conducting business there, eating in its restaurants, shopping, and passing through on Interstate 30, heading for nearby Hope Arkansas.
Due its location on U.S. highways 59, 67, 71, and 82, Texarkana has long been an overnight stop for many travelers, and hence there are a considerable number of tourist courts, motels and hotels. It is also a hub for trucking and railroads.
The Great Southwest Trail, for hundreds of years the main line of travel from Indian villages of the Mississippi River country to those of the South and West, passed by a Caddo Indian village on the site that later became Texarkana. The Texas and Pacific Railway (T&P) Company laid out the Texas side of the town.
Texarkana is located near Fulton and Ashdown, Arkansas, and Hooks and New Boston, Texas.
Shown below are several images of the past from Texarkana...
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