TEXARKANA

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TEXARKANA , two adjoining cities forming one community, situated on either side of the boundary line between Arkansas and

Texas

TEXAS

, U.S.A., about 165 m. E. by N. of Dallas,

Texas

TEXAS

; Texarkana, county-seat of Miller county, Arkansas, pop. (l000) 4914, of whom 120 were foreign-born and 2078 were negroes; (1910) 5655; Texarkana, Bowie county, Texas, pop. (rgoo) 5256, of whom 192 were foreign-born and 1964 were negroes; (1910) 9790. Texarkana is served by the Kansas City Southern (Port Arthur Route), the Texas & Pacific (of which it is the eastern terminus), the St Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern (Iron I ountain Route, the southern terminus), and the St Louis South, Western (

Cotton

Belt Route) railways. The public buildings are two city halls, a well-designed Post Office, which stands on the
state line and serves both cities, a county court

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

(on the Arkansas side), and a Federal court building (on the Texas side). The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

trade is in lumber (especially hard woods, such as white oak and ash),

cotton

, cotton-seed oil and hides. Natural gas is piped here from the Caddo gas-fields, about 48 m. S., in Louisiana. The first permanent

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

here was made in 1874; Texarkana, Texas, was incorporated in 1875, and Texarkana, Arkansas, in 1881.

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