Ghost Town Gets Grant
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The Marion County ghost town of Rush could get a bit of a fix-up with the help of a 135-thousand dollar federal
grant. The town was once home to five-thousand people, most of them engaged in mining zinc early in the last century.
But it`s been abandoned for more than 50 years, and it`s buildings are crumbling as well as succumbing to the occasional fire. Lost most recently were the town`s livery stable and a
decades-old home that were burned by arsonists.
The town is inside the Buffalo National River, and National Park
Service historian Suzie Rogers hopes to save some of what`s left with the federal grant.
