Texarkana Travel Information
Texarkana is named for three states: Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
The Texas pink-granite post office straddles the state line between
Texas and Arkansas and is in both states—the only federal state
post office of its kind. Stately old brick buildings house
government offices and businesses. Also straddling the state line, the
Bi-State Justice Center houses courts and jails for two separate
states, counties and cities. The Texarkana area was once part of
the Great Southwest Trail, used for hundreds of years by Native
American tribes traveling between the villages in the Mississippi
Valley and the West and Southwest. The Grand Caddoes settled in the
area, finding fertile soil for growing crops. Remnants of their
culture surround the Texarkana area. In more recent history, Texarkana
was the childhood home of Scott Joplin, “King of Ragtime,” and a
downtown mural celebrates him. In extreme northeast Texas on the
Arkansas border and just 25 miles from Louisiana, Texarkana is at the
junction of I-30 and US Highways 59, 67, 71 and 82.
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