Bloomburg is located 20 miles, by rail, from Texarkana, about 8 miles East of Atlanta, Texas, it is about a half-mile from the Arkansas state line and just a few miles from the point where the three states, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana meet. Shreveport, Louisiana is some 50 miles south. To the north of Bloomburg about twelve or fifteen miles is Sulphur River. One record states that the Dempsey Post Office, two miles south of Bloomburg,was established 22 June 1874 with Andrew J. Newton as Postmaster. The office was discontinued 1 Nov. 1875. And other record reads, it was established 7 July 1888 with Andrew J. McWilliams as Post Master. The office was discontinued 15 May 1901. Queen City's Post office was established 13 Nov 1871 and was used by some. The Bloomburg's Post Office was established in 17 Mar. 1896 with Mr.W. J. Easters as Post Masters.

THE MARRYING TREES:

After the railroad came, the groom-to-be could ride the train to
Texarkana, walk over to the Miller County, Courthouse, Arkansas and purchase
the marriage license, then walk back to the train. Then the couple would get
the preacher and their witnesses and go to what was called the Marrying Trees
across the Arkansas line and have the knot tied. If the Groom-to-be had gone
to Linden the only way to get there would have been by horse-back or horse
and buggy, going across red, muddy, narrow roads. The coming of the
automobile ended this custom.

BLOOMBURG
It seems this spot was considered the dividing ridge between Black Bayou and Sulphur River. This was also the pathe for a long established logging road of those early day settlers.

The railroad official hired a surveyor, he used an old well that stood for years, probably dug when the old log house was built, so he used it for the starting point when he started laying off the town-site.

Joseph Endsley was the original owner, he bought it before the Civil war. It is in the J.P. Key headright survey. Mitchell Lummus came from Georgia in 1877 and bought land on the east side of the present town of Bloomburg. The land sold after Mitchell Lummus's death to R.I. Brown. Mr. Brown bought and owned much of the property in Bloomburg.

Bloomburg came into existence with the building of the Texarkana and Ft. Smith Railroad. A turn table was built here and the trains returned. The railroad line reached this point in 1895. This line was known as the Kansas City Southern Railway Lines when it was completed on to Beaumont and Port Arthur.
A railroad line was built between Atlanta and Bloomburg in 1897 by the Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana Railway. It made two trips dailey to and from Atlanta, it was called the Dummy and was discontinued in 1918.

A huge crowd witnessed the first train arriving in Bloomburg and old settlers say they remember water and mud were every where.

In the center of Main Street was a well where water was drawn for those who were thirsty. It seems there was a long row of wooden store buildings, on the north side of Main Street, with a long plank side walk up on high stilts with steps at each end and one in the middle for getting up on the sidewalk. It seems this area was a frog pond and when it rained it was knee deep in water and mud. The old wooden buildings served the needs of Bloomburg for many years, but age, time, and progress demanded the demolishing of those old buildings.