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Alto Pass Quiet Town Faces Change and Tourism Hopes
Laton Pirtle recalls wagon loads of fruit on a bustling Alto Pass street once. Today the village shows a mix of small shops and two funeral parlors while plans for a George Rogers Clark Recreation Way and a sewer fund rise amid aging farms and renewed antique shops.
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Alto Pass
Laton H. Pirtle
Union County
Congregational Church
Pirtle
Barbara Sides
Mabel Smith
Bald Knob
Alto
Leroy
Ohio
Mississippi
Carbondale
Cobden
Charles Bass
Anna
Jonesboro
Bald Knob Cross
Wayman Presley
Makanda
Bald Knob Hill
Howard Dallas
Rendleman
Hartline Farms
Dallas
W.A. Bittle
Bittle