Today’s hot weather drive was to the ghost town of Rush, Arkansas. Old log cabins, remnants of rock wall foundations and once-upon-a-time homesteads can be found within a mile of the Buffalo River.
This remote area was thriving the 1800s, with a population of over 5,000 coming to find prosperity mining what was originally thought to be silver and ended up being zinc ore. The smelter still remains.
The Rush boom town was well established by the 1890s and a community of homes and businesses developed along the most famous mine in the area, Morning Star Mine. Its heyday was in World War I. By World War II, several of the processing mills were dismantled for salvage. The town hung on through the 1950s when the post office closed. Sometime in the 1960s, the remaining inhabitants left, leaving Rush to its ghosts and the pages of history.
Great info! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteLove these old abandoned spots. Will have to add this one to the list!
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