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New Boston is a city in Bowie County, Texas. It was named after an early store keeper, W.J. Boston. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. When the Missouri-Pacific railroad was being constructed four miles north of Boston in the summer of 1876, it was many businessmen in Boston (now Old Boston) thought their town would suffer a serious decline as a consequence of its distance from the line. At a mass meeting J. H. Smelser, a local resident and surveyor for the railroad, was selected to secure the location of a depot at a point on the line nearest to Boston. In September 1876 lots were laid out and put up for sale on 100 acres that the railroad had purchased. Because most of those engaged in the project were from Boston, the new town was named New Boston.