At right: the Bushong Church
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At right: the Bushong Church |
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Josephine moved to Bushong in 1943 and raised children in the community. She remembers two grocery stores, one also selling hardware supplies. There was a shoe repair shop, a post office, bank, elevator, railroad depot and maintenance building. Despite the ghost town appearance downtown, there are many people who continue to call Bushong home. Josephine thinks people come there now for the quiet.
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The building at left was the post office and served for a time as the city building. |
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Other buildings are being reclaimed by nature: |
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The school at left, unused for decades, is only a shell. Children are bused to rural schools. |
A well-tended park overlooks the old school building. |
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photography by Dave Leiker
copyright 2005