April 26, 2009

Dry goods and grocery stores were once the heart of Arkansas rural economies. Businesses like the Brinneman Brothers General Store, shown here in Hunter (Woodruff County) in the early twentieth century, rapidly began to close by the 1950s. The abandoned rural store quickly became something of a symbol of the effects of modernization throughout the state.

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