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Citizens in Fayetteville are pictured circa 1906 on the downtown square. Following several decades of prosperity, the town suffered an economic downturn in the 1920s and 1930s as the result of a drought, the Great Depression, and the closure of its railroad line.

Courtesy of Fayette County Historical Society

Fayetteville Square

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