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Location of Bowie County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bowie County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bowie County, Texas. There are one district and 17 individual properties listed on the National ...
Bowie County was established in December 1840 and reduced to its present size in 1846. DeKalb was the temporary county seat, with Boston becoming the permanent county seat in 1841. [9] [10] Bowie County, in the years leading up to the American Civil War, was settled mostly by Southerners who brought their slave labor to work the cotton fields ...
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An assessor's parcel number, or APN, is a number assigned to parcels of real property by the tax assessor of a particular jurisdiction for purposes of identification and record-keeping.
On July 22, 1881, Bowie was incorporated as a town in Montague County, United States. (A separate Bowie County includes Texarkana in northeastern Texas.) The town began to expand with the arrival of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in 1882. [5] In 1884, four men robbed the First National Bank of Bowie and allegedly left with over $10,000 in ...
Simms is an unincorporated community in Bowie County, Texas, United States. [2] According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 240 in 2000. It is part of the Texarkana metropolitan area .
Maud is situated by the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, near U.S. Highway 67 in southern Bowie County. The territory around Maud, known before the Republic of Texas era as the Red River Country, was among the earliest settled areas, but Spanish claims to the land, outlaws from the Neutral Ground, and general lawlessness discouraged extensive development.
Redwater is twelve miles southwest of Texarkana in southeastern Bowie County. It grew up in the mid-1870s around a sawmill operated by two men named Daniels and Spence, who named the community Ingersoll, in honor of the agnostic Robert Ingersoll. A post office was established in 1881, and by 1884 the town had an estimated population of fifty.