Marshall, Texas

Marshall is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located near the Louisiana and Arkansas borders in the Ark-La-Tex region. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Marshall had a total population of 23,935. It is the county seat of Harrison County{{GR|6}}.

Miscellaneous trivia

Notable facts not mentioned in the article text.

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• The city of Marshall actually celebrates a festival honoring the fire ant.
• Bill Moyers won an Emmy for his documentary ' chronicling the history of race relations in the city.
• Marshall was one of ten cities designated an All American City in 1976 by the National Civic League.
• Marshall became a sister city with Taipei, Taiwan on November 29, 1978. Both Mayor Lee Teng-Hui (Taipei) and Mayor William O. Burns (Marshall) were present at the signing ceremony.
• The civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, and James L. Farmer, Jr. all attended a Marshall college at some point in their education; King and Jackson attended Bishop College while Farmer went to Wiley College
• Lady Bird Johnson was the first student at Marshall High School to have a car.
• Marshall was the first city in Texas to have electricity: a single light bulb at the Texas and Pacific Depot.
• The city lies within the Eastern Interconnection rather than the Texas Interconnection making it part of only 15% of the state to lie outside of that power grid.
• That Marshall is closer to the capitals of Arkansas (Little Rock 190 miles or 305 km), Louisiana (Baton Rouge, 239 miles or 384 km), and Mississippi (Jackson 243 miles or 390 km) than it is to the capital of Texas (Austin, 253 miles or 407 km).