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Rich Hill, Missouri Park Avenue Looking West Street Scene Vintage Postcard

Rich Hill, Missouri Park Avenue Looking West vintage postcard, photo, historic, antique

A vintage postcard view of Park Avenue looking west in Rich Hill, Missouri. Many businesses line either side of the wide dirt street. Rich Hill was a boom town in the early 1900's due to large, open pit coal mines in the area. This postcard is postmarked in 1909.

Rich Hill, Missouri Park Avenue vintage postcard, historic, photo

A second view from a little further east of the same street and buildings. The window on the first business on the right marked Saloon. This postcard is postmarked in 1913.

Rich Hill is in Bates County, Missouri.

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