You’ll find Arkansas’s ghost towns scattered across the state as reminders of zinc mining booms, timber operations, and visionary resort schemes. Rush thrived during World War I with 5,000 residents extracting zinc from Buffalo River valley deposits, while Monte Ne’s grand hotel complex now lies submerged beneath Beaver Lake. Old Davidsonville served as the territory’s first county seat before flooding drove residents away in 1823. Timber towns like Graysonia and Agnos rapidly depleted forests before corporate operators abandoned their sawmills. Each site preserves distinct archaeological evidence of Arkansas’s extractive economy and settlement patterns.
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9.1 How Do Arkansas Ghost Towns Differ From Ghost Towns in Western States?…