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| | Handbook of Texas Online: MILLER COUNTY, ARKANSAS |
 | | Miller County, as created by an act of the Territorial Legislature of Arkansas on April 1, 1820, included most of what is now Miller County, Arkansas, and the Texas counties of Bowie, Red River, Lamar, Fannin, Cass, Morris, Titus, Franklin, Hopkins, Delta, and Hunt. |
 | | The original county seat was in the John Hall house in the Gilliland settlement. |
 | | In December 1874 Miller County was created out of that part of Lafayette County lying west and south of the Red River, and Texarkana, Arkansas, was made the county seat. |
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