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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 719249" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>An actual stoplight??? Wow!</p><p></p><p>Ladies, the town I grew up "in" was the county seat and it literally has a population of (according to Google for 2016) 206. They had a population boom in the late 90's I believe. It was more like 150 for a long time. My school, K thru 12, had approximately 200 students (rural kids mostly) and my graduating class had a total of 17. </p><p></p><p>I myself lived 5 miles from town, on a gravel road. The town used to be a river port, like in the 1800's and early 1900's, so it was kind of a boom town in the day...but they built a damn and the water level no longer allows any commercial river traffic. In addition to the school, we had two gas stations, a post office, a general store, an actual restaurant, a bar, two churches (Baptist and Christian), a really nice park, a meat processing plant, a factory that makes little wooden boxes for and stuff like you see in a souvenir shop, a medical clinic and of course, the sheriff's department and courthouse. Those were the days. Now it has a much bigger and nicer courthouse and school, but they've lost the clinic, restaurant, store and not sure if the post office and factor still exists. There was a feed store too now that I think about it...but I think it's gone.</p><p></p><p>There's still no fancy stoplight, just a sign. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 719249, member: 17309"] An actual stoplight??? Wow! Ladies, the town I grew up "in" was the county seat and it literally has a population of (according to Google for 2016) 206. They had a population boom in the late 90's I believe. It was more like 150 for a long time. My school, K thru 12, had approximately 200 students (rural kids mostly) and my graduating class had a total of 17. I myself lived 5 miles from town, on a gravel road. The town used to be a river port, like in the 1800's and early 1900's, so it was kind of a boom town in the day...but they built a damn and the water level no longer allows any commercial river traffic. In addition to the school, we had two gas stations, a post office, a general store, an actual restaurant, a bar, two churches (Baptist and Christian), a really nice park, a meat processing plant, a factory that makes little wooden boxes for and stuff like you see in a souvenir shop, a medical clinic and of course, the sheriff's department and courthouse. Those were the days. Now it has a much bigger and nicer courthouse and school, but they've lost the clinic, restaurant, store and not sure if the post office and factor still exists. There was a feed store too now that I think about it...but I think it's gone. There's still no fancy stoplight, just a sign. :) [/QUOTE]
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