Rush was a zinc mining town whose population reached 3,000 during World War I. Old photo of the Hicks hotel and stone general store. Once a thriving community, today the decrepit stone walls of the former general store, along with some concrete and pebbles from flower beds, are all that remain. Located in the Rush Historic District of Arkansas, a ghost town on the banks of the Buffalo River in an Ozark mountain valley, the Hicks property has long been taken over by nature. The stairs emerge from the undergrowth, making us wonder, “What was this place?” (Not for sale) A ruined fieldstone wall appears from the forest in a notable curve of the access road leading to Rush Landing, a popular place for paddlers on the Buffalo River in north‐central Arkansas.
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