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Ozarks at Large

With Cemeteries, Country Stores Historians Gather Stories of Ghost Towns

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On a road trip, drivers might roll past a place with a community building, cemetery, a couple of houses and a couple old buildings. Some of these areas used to be bustling, but as industries left and community hubs such as schools closed, they faded. Historians are looking into towns no longer in their heyday such as Sulphur Springs in Yell County.

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Anna Pope is KUAF's growth impact reporter and a Report for America corps member