By: Nancy Young
Type: General EntryPublished: 1952
Updated: September 1, 1995
The Paris, Choctaw and Little Rock Railway Company was chartered on May 8, 1888. The railroad was planned to connect Paris in Lamar County with Hooks Ferry on the Red River, a distance of thirty miles, and then run through the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory to Arkansas. The capital stock was $300,000, and the principal place of business was Paris. Members of the first board of directors were J. H. Johnson of Davenport, Iowa, and Samuel J. Wright, G. B. Maxey, John Martin, D. H. Scott, T. D. Craig, J. A. Martin, L. P. Harrison, and W. B. Wise, all of Paris. Ten miles of track was built out of Paris, and the railroad was subsequently abandoned.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry.
Nancy Young, “Paris, Choctaw and Little Rock Railway,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed September 22, 2021, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/paris-choctaw-and-little-rock-railway.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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