Description
Artwork Size: 14×21, Medium: Watercolor, Location Depicted in Artwork: Yellville, AR, Artist Statement: The ghost town of Rush stands as silent testimony to a bygone era. Zinc carbonate ore was discovered in this valley in the late 1880?s and the ?rush? was on. The population of the valley fluctuated with the zinc market, peaking around 1914-1917 when more than 5000 people lived and worked here. Mines were abandoned as the zinc market crashed at the end of World War I. The remaining circa 1900 buildings in this Buffalo National River community housed miners until the 1960’s, and are now controlled by the National Park Service.
