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10 unusual facts about Texarkana


Bird's Point, Missouri

The railroad ran from Bird's Point through Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Texarkana, Texas and to Gatesville, Texas, offering planters a convenient route to transfer their cotton bales to the Mississippi for water transport to markets in the Midwest.

East Bound and Down

The soundtrack's lyrics better describe the run made by the protagonist characters in the film, in that they travel west from Atlanta, Georgia to Texarkana, Texas, and then make the return trip east to Atlanta.

KLFI

KLFI-LP, a low-power television station (channel 35) licensed to Texarkana, Arkansas, United States

KWN31

It also broadcasts hourly weather observations for the following cities: Greenville, Sulphur Springs, Paris, McKinney, Terrell, Mineola, and Mount Pleasant; and elsewhere around the region: DFW Airport, Sherman-Denison, Tyler, and Texarkana.

Marion H. Crank

Crank died in 1994 at the age of seventy-nine at a hospital in Texarkana,

At the time of his death in Texarkana, Texas, he was the president of Southwest Arkansas Planning & Development District and the chairman of the Little River County Rural Development Authority.

Noah W. Cross

Cross then resigned as sheriff to enter the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas.

Papa's Delicate Condition

It was an adaptation of the Corinne Griffith memoir of the same name, about her father and growing up in Texarkana, Texas.

Pilotdrift

Pilotdrift is an American experimental rock band formed in Texarkana, Texas.

Salt of the Earth

Biberman was imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution at Texarkana for six months.


Henry E. Chambers

Soon he was a job hopper, having in 1881–1882 undertaken the principalship of Mineral Springs High School in Mineral Springs in Howard County near Texarkana in southwestern Arkansas.

Interstate 69

Among these proposed spurs are an extension of Interstate 530 from Pine Bluff, Arkansas (known as "the Dickey Split," for its champion, congressman Jay Dickey), an upgrade of U.S. Route 59 from Texarkana, Texas, and a split in southern Texas to serve three border crossings at Laredo, Pharr-McAllen, and Brownsville.

KTAL

KTAL-TV, a television station (channel 6 analog/15 digital) licensed to Texarkana, Texas, United States

KTAL-FM, a radio station (98.1 FM) licensed to Texarkana, Texas, United States

KTAL-TV

By this time, the Palmer properties had been taken over by Palmer's son-in-law, Walter E. Hussman, Sr. He persuaded the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to collapse Texarkana and Shreveport into a single television market.

KTFS

KTFS-FM, a radio station (107.1 FM) licensed to Texarkana, Arkansas, United States

Lynn Lowe

Pryor first won a hard-fought Democratic primary against the Texarkana attorney Richard S. Arnold, then a son-in-law of the media owner Walter E. Hussman, Sr..

Prissy Hickerson

Hickerson worked to obtain construction of a highway rest area outside Texarkana for the benefit of eastbound travelers.

Slade Heathcott

Kimberly relocated with Slade's younger brother, Zane, to Alexandria, Louisiana, while Slade remained in high school, attending Texas High School in Texarkana.

Texarkana Gazette

Rodger Dean Duncan, who later worked for two White House administrations and is now a prominent business consultant, was managing editor of the two Texarkana newspapers in the late 1960s.

Texarkana Moonlight Murders

On Tuesday, May 7, 1946 (four days after Starks' murder), a body of a man was found on the Kansas City Southern Railway tracks 16 miles north of Texarkana near Ogden at approximately 6 a.m.

Texas Annual Conference

The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is the regional body of congregations and ministries in East Texas, from Texarkana west to approximately Cedar Creek Lake in the north, Thorndale, Tx in the west, and Bay City in the southwest and down to the Gulf Coast and back east to the Louisiana border.

Texas State Highway 1

Known as the Texarkana, Dallas, Fort Worth and El Paso Highway, it crossed from Arkansas at Texarkana and ran west through Dallas, Fort Worth, Albany, Abilene, Big Spring and Van Horn to end in El Paso.

The Bandit Run

Following the same route that the characters Bo "Bandit" Darville (Burt Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Jerry Reed) made in the 1977 movie, a group of about 30 Trans Ams started out in Texarkana on May 15, 2007.

Walter E. Hussman, Jr.

The late federal Judge Richard S. Arnold of Texarkana and Little Rock, was Hussman's former brother-in-law.