I love Saturdays! We shopped at the Farmer's Market in the morning ate lunch at a park with our pups in Yellville and did a little clothes shopping. Then we headed just north of Yellville to a place called "Marble Falls". When we got out of the car to start bush-whacking down the hill what we saw was discouraging. An entire hill of poison ivy. We even tried to go around that hill and come at it a different way. We got less than a few feet into the woods and it and poison sumac could be found just about every where you looked. We had our pups with us too and figured the whole ordeal would probably not be worth the hassle so we got back in our car with defeated hearts.
We decided not to waste the day though, and went down to Rush, South of Yellville. We walked the dogs along the river bank and had a snack along the babbling creek that flows toward the upper Buffalo River.
We also went on the Rush Historic Trail. On the trail we saw old mines.....
and what was left of a town that stood over 100 years ago.
The Blacksmith's shop was still in pretty good shape....
The larger building closer to us here was a general store and post office with fourteen post office boxes. Oh, and this is were you got the marriage papers too! In the house next to the general store lived the store's owner and operator and his wife.
This plaque showed a map of the mining town. Many of the structures had either burned down or just didn't pass the test of time.
Dustin and I both had a great time despite that poison ivy hill!
Cool, I've got to get back down to Rush. Perhaps once mom gets her legs strongly back underneath her, the two of us can go there. Love the pics. To bad about Marble Falls, I think I've heard, read our seem something about them. Perhaps at some point they will eradicate the venomous plate life there.
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