Historian gives talk on Bankhead National Highway

By: Greg Bischof - Texarkana Gazette

Staff photo by Greg Bischof Daniel Smith, right, a Fort Worth-based historian, talks to Texarkana, Texas, resident Bart Vance about the Bankhead National Highway that used to run through Texarkana during the 1920s. The highway eventually became U.S. Highway 67. Smith spoke Tuesday at a Texarkana Oa...

Some Twin Cities residents Tuesday found out something they never knew before about a highway that has run through both cities for the last 92 years.

“At one time, it had become the most significant highway in America,” said Daniel L. Smith, a former meteorologist and curr...

Published: 02/27/2013