Society Contact Information

Regional Information

Region 4

Meet the Regional Director — Tom Middlebrook

Regional News

The Gateway Project

The Gateway Project has been initiated to document historically and archeologically the first twenty-seven years of Texarkana's existence. (1873–1900).  In October 2004, TAS and the Arkansas Archeological Society participated in The Gateway Project in Texarkana. Brick foundations were discovered at the site of several nineteenth century hotels across from the railroad.  Three hotels were built consecutively on this site.  The brick walls encountered were 31 inches below an existing asphalt surface.  The excavation offered information about foundation construction techniques used in building the hotels. Massive brick foundation walls indicated that brick construction was an integral part of the building scene in the late nineteenth century in Texarkana.  The discovery of the brick foundation walls has contributed to the understanding and documentation of the earliest years of Texarkana.

Top

Tom Middlebrook     E-mail: region04@txarch.org

Back to Regions