Texarkana History: Town Well on Broad Street

Texarkana History: Town Well on Broad Street

Town wells, early Texarkana, pioneer

Short clip from 1971 interview with Texarkana resident Helen Miller. Topic is memory of Broad Street.

Texarkana Museums System

Texarkana Museums System Oral History Program

1971

Helen Miller

Copyright (c) Texarkana Museums System

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English

Texarkana Museums System

Helen Miller

Texarkana, Arkansas

"…and I remember Broad Street when they had, uh, bricks down Broad Street. And I also remember my father worked at Texarkana Stock Yard, Cotton Belt Stock Yards; and my mother had a horse and buggy and as a kid, we would go down Broad Street and I remember where State Line is now, the intersection of State Line there, uh, they had a water trough, and she used to would go there and water the horse and they also had a well there…"

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