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Busch, Arkansas 72620
by Terri Bradt ______________________________________________________________ BUSCH, ARKANSAS 72620 © 2009 Terri Bradt All Rights Reserved A Publication of Kinetico Studios Busch / Eureka Springs, AR
72631 ___________________________________________________________ For Mabel Walden The Last Postmaster of
Busch ___________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Introduction The Homestead Years The 1910s The 1920s The 1930 – 1950s The Last Postmaster of Busch Postmaster Appointments A List of the Images References Index _______________________________________________________________ Introduction Busch, Arkansas in 2009 is a
place name, describing a place with no real boundaries. Its only official status is that it is
recognized in some current databases as one of the addresses in the zip code
72631, along with Holiday Island and Eureka Springs. The mail comes out of Holiday Island, but
if you live on this rural route, you can sometimes convince the Department of
Finance and Administration to print your driver’s license showing your
address as Busch, Arkansas 72631. Lying on the White River a few
miles south of the Missouri border, the heart of Busch is on a straight
stretch of U.S. Highway 62, an otherwise very curvy road between Gateway,
Arkansas and Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Scattered around the rocky Ozark hills and valleys are the residents
and their many varied businesses and pursuits. It seems like just a wide place in the road when you drive
through, so some wonder why the highway department has put up new road signs,
marking the entrance to Busch at random spots from the east and from the
west. The answer lies in the history
of a little U.S. Post Office named Busch, Arkansas…. |
