McCartney

The former Hotel McCartney is located at the corner of North Main Street and West Front Street in downtown Texarkana. On December 8, 1873, the Texas and Pacific Railroad sold the first town lots for the future city. The first buyer was J. W. Davis, who purchased the land where the Hotel McCartney stands on the Texas side of the border, opposite Union Station which is split between both the Arkansas and Texas border. The name Texarkana is known to be a portmanteau of Texas, Arkansas, and nearby Louisiana. Texarkana is a twin city with neighboring Texarkana, Arkansas. The city and its Arkansas counterpart form the core of the Texarkana Metropolitan Statistical Area, encompassing all of Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas. The two cities had a combined population of 65,580 in the 2020 decennial census, and the metropolitan area had a population of 149,482. A city in Bowie County, Texas, United States, in the Ark-La-Tex region, Texarkana is located approximately 180 miles (290 km) from Dallas, and approximately 290 miles (466.71 km) from Houston, and approximately 145 miles (233 km) from Little Rock, Arkansas, and approximately 72 miles (116 km) from Shreveport, Louisiana. Interstate 30 passes through Texarkana on the north. Loop 151 on the west of the city forms part of the Texarkana Loop, a three-quarter loop around the west, south, and east of the twin cities with I-30 completing the loop on the north. Interstate 369 shares the western portion of Loop 151. Interstate 49 is a newly constructed interstate corridor on the Arkansas side of the city which connects Texarkana to Shreveport, Louisiana. Texarkana Regional Airport is located in Texarkana, Arkansas, and serves general aviation and American Eagle service to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Texarkana Union Station is located in downtown Texarkana along the state line, with Amtrak's Texas Eagle providing daily service east to Chicago and west to San Antonio, continuing on to Los Angeles three days a week with intermediate points. Texarkana is home to Texas A&M University–Texarkana, a four-year branch of the Texas A&M University System, and to Texarkana College, a community college..