Both interesting stories, one is about the old community of Rondo... Old Rondo Methodist Church and Masonic Hall, erected in 1818, had a silver bell cast of Mexican coins. A new church was built on the same site in 1936. The night before the old church was to be moved and preserved by the Rondo Historical Society, it burned to the ground. The silver bell could not be found. The only explanation was that it "broke when it fell". The other story is about the first Red River bridge at Garland. Where there was previously only a ferry, the area citizens wanted a bridge built across the river, and the Arkansas Highway dept. started construction in 1929, paying the owners of the ferry $19,000 for the right of way. (To build a three span truss bridge). But early in the morning of Sep. 1930, two large blasts rocked the center span of the Red River Bridge off its piers into the river. The blast was heard 25 miles away... No one was arrested for the dynamiting. The city of Garland, the state of Arkansas, and the bridge company came to a private agreement regarding financial responsibility. (The bridge was built, opened as a toll bridge, July 1931. The toll ceased in 1938. This bridge is gone now, and replaced with a modern bridge going over the Red at Garland, between Texarkana and Lewisville, AR.)