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Texarkana is the largest city in the Bowie and Miller County region. It is a thriving metro-center serving nineteen counties in four states. A diversified economy is supported by manufacturing, agriculture, medical, transportation, and retail. Residents and visitors alike enjoy the moderate climate and a variety of recreational and entertainment activities, such as golfing, areas parks and lakes, museums, theater and annual events like the Four States Fair & Rodeo and Quadrangle Festival.
Texarkana's motto: Twice As Nice, appropriately conveys the political structure here. There are two of most everything: two city mayors, two city governments, two police departments, and two fire departments.
Texarkana is the regional medical center for a population of more than 400,000 within a 60-mile radius of the community. Two acute care hospitals, two rehabilitation hospitals, a treatment center for disabled adults and children, two dialysis centers, and a diabetes clinic. Special needs of the elderly are filled by 11 full-care nursing homes and 10 retirement and assisted living facilities. Home health services, meals-on-wheels program, and hospice services are readily available. New Boston adds an additional 63 bed hospital, 3 rehabilitation facilities and a nursing care facility.
Many award winning public and private schools are a part the Texarkana and New Boston School Districts. Texarkana also has two colleges. Texarkana College is a fully accredited comprehensive community college serving approximately 6000 academic-credit students and over 9000 non-credit students. Texas A & M University at Texarkana is an upper level university which shares the campus of Texarkana College and provides citizens of the four-state region a convenient and economical opportunity to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees.
For more information on the climate, recreation, demographics and history of our area, visit the Texarkana and New Boston Chamber of Commerce websites.
Visit the Texarkana Chamber of Commerce Home Page
Visit the New Boston Chamber of Commerce Home Page
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