Texarkana State Line Railroad Strongbox — Bowie County

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Texarkana State Line Railroad Strongbox — Bowie County

Lost Treasure TX • Bowie County County
Description
Texarkana legend of railroad-era specie at the 1874 Texas–Pacific and Cairo & Fulton rail junction — when the border town was laid out exactly on the state line.
Historical Notes
Texarkana was established December 8, 1873, where the Texas and Pacific Railway met the Cairo and Fulton Railroad at the Texas–Arkansas border. The Texas and Pacific completed its line to the state line on January 15, 1874. State Line Avenue was laid out exactly along the dividing line between Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas. George M. Clark opened the first business, a drug and grocery store, on December 8, 1873. By 1896 Texarkana had compresses, cotton oil mills, streetcars, and a population of 14,000. Railroad-junction folklore imagines paymaster chests and merchant strongboxes when eight rail outlets made Texarkana a major Southwest railroad center. Coordinates mark the state-line rail junction east of downtown.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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