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An old gas station/garage in Buffalo.

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Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette:

TO CHANUTE
On a Saturday morning, Dave and I headed southbound on K-99, the car happily gobbling up white stripes on the highway.
After a long and unforgiving winter, it was exhilarating to see scenery zipping by at 60 mph again. We’d had a [...]

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Not all is abandoned in Dunlap. There’s a well-kept Methodist Church here.

The air was so still, the town so quiet, that I could hear a jet scraping the sky overhead. I hadn’t heard the sound of a jet in the sky for a long time.

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Like many small towns, Dunlap has quite a few abandoned places.

A church.

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The old school gymnasium is Dunlap’s community center. More here on Dunlap.

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The classic old gas station in Dunlap (Morris County.)

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Church sign, Dunlap (Morris County).

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What remains of the Post Office Oak tree in Council Grove.

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Buffalo, pop. 276, is in Wilson County.

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