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The changing fortunes of a small town in Kentucky.(Livingston)

By Allen, Duane D.; O'Dell, Gary A.
Publication: Focus
Date: Friday, January 1 1999

Livingston is a small, but once-prosperous, town in Kentucky. Today, the town is but a ghost of its past, with derelict buildings lining its streets. A plan to revitalize the town, beginning with the Livingston Elementary School, is being hatched up by Mayor Sandra Tyree.

Ghosts of a prosperous past

Strung along the narrow valley of Roundstone Creek, just before it joins the swift waters of the Rockcastle River, is the very small town of Livingston, population about 240 souls. The old federal highway, US 25, will take you there. Rising from the peneplain of Kentucky

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