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History History is important to Texarkana. Many people influenced and made Texarkana, Arkansas what it is today. James “Jim” Bowie, Colonel Gus Knobel, James Miller, and Governor James Conway are some of the founding fathers of Texarkana (Map Tour). They began the journey of making Texarkana the city it is today. A large diverse population used to travel through the area that is now Texarkana, Arkansas. These people also played a vital role in how Texarkana would develop. The immigrants and other people would travel through this area in order to get to Texas and would sometimes stop here for the night. Since there were so many people traveling through this area they decided to establish a town. Miller county was developed in 1820 (Miller Country …show more content…

Texarkana is rapidly expanding for example “according to city data.com the 2013 census shows that the city of Texarkana AR there are approximately 30,016 people who make up this area.” The website goes on to state “According to the website the population of Texarkana is predominately white, with more than 61.3% of the population being white, 32.5% making up the black population, 3.2% making up the Hispanic population, Asians making up 0.6% and other races making up 0.08%.”The diversity rate of the population is very similar to the state’s average. Due to the location of the city being within the “bible belt” most families are made up of a married couple consisting of a mother and father. However not everyone in the city lives in a tradition for instance statistics show that According the website it states “27.9% have never been married, 45.1% are now married, 5.0% are separated, 8.0% are widowed and 14.1% are divorced, 648.8 % live in family households, 6.7% live in households with unmarried couples, lesbian couple households make up 0.3% and gay mean make up 0.3% of households.” Many people are against abortion, including the

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