January 4, 2010

The town square area was always the business center of early Arkansas towns. When the downtown business area of Mountain Home (Baxter County) was photographed as shown here in the 1950s, the growing community had more than 2,000 citizens. By 2009, with its growing tourist industry due to the natural beauty of nearby Norfork and Bull Shoals lakes and the surrounding countryside, the town had a population of more than 11,000.