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Texarkana, Arkansas - Trice Elementary School
The graphs below show 15-minute average data collected at the site over the past three days. You can also download the raw data files and make your own graphs of the data from this and other photovoltaic systems from our data page. Please note: Performance data from this system and nearly 100 others on schools, businesses, and houses nationwide are presented at www.SolTrex.com, a new website that allows you to make custom graphs of the performance data from any system!
Visitors to the twin cities of Texarkana sometimes found themselves a bit confused. And it's easy to understand why. Texarkana is a border city where State Line Avenue divides Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas. Who named Texarkana is up for debate. The popular version credits Colonel Gus Knobel who surveyed this section for the Iron Mountain Railroad right-of-way from Little Rock. The story goes that Colonel Knobel wrote Tex-Ark-Ana on a board and nailed it to a tree and remarked that this was the name of the town which was going to be built here. Here's the rest of the story in case you're wondering. Colonel Knobel believed he was at or near the spot where the borders of three states met. So he named the city after these states - Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. The two cities are routinely referred to as the State Line Cities because the main thoroughfare, State Line Avenue, is the Arkansas-Texas border. Texarkana's motto: Twice As Nice, appropriately conveys the political structure here. There are two of most everything: two city mayors, two city governments, two police departments, two fire departments. Texarkana is a thriving agricultural, transportation, wholesale and manufacturing center serving four states. Residents and visitors alike enjoy the moderate climate and a variety of recreational and entertainment activities.
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The system at Trice Elementary School began generating power on July 27,
1999. The system is rated at 4 kilowatts.