Texarkana Cotton Compress Merchant Specie — Bowie County

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Texarkana Cotton Compress Merchant Specie — Bowie County

Lost Treasure TX • Bowie County County
Description
Texarkana legend of cotton-compress merchant specie — when the border city became a milling and market center with compresses, oil mills, and four railroad systems by 1948.
Historical Notes
By 1896 Texarkana had a cotton compress, cotton oil mill, waterworks, electric light plant, five miles of streetcar lines, and a population of 14,000. Bowie County farmers shipped cotton, corn, rice, soybeans, and pecans through Texarkana. In 1948 Texarkana was a junction of four important railroad systems with eight outlets and one of the major railroad centers of the Southwest. Industries included lumber products, sewer tile, rockwool, sand and gravel, and paper products. Cotton-boom folklore imagines compress receipts and merchant strongboxes when crop prices collapsed during the Great Depression — Bowie County businesses declined from 840 in 1931 to 696 in 1936. Coordinates mark the Texas-side commercial district.
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