After Discovery of Massive ‘White Gold’ Deposit, Arkansas Towns Prepare for Boom

After Discovery of Massive ‘White Gold’ Deposit, Arkansas Towns Prepare for Boom

LAFAYETTE COUNTY, Ark.—There are boom-and-bust ghost towns and there are towns that dissipate over decades, slowly wilting away until a place is no longer a place. Downtown Lewisville is such a place. The Lafayette County seat has one unplugged traffic light and the three-block span between the police and fire station and county courthouse is a crypt of calcified commerce, clay buffed-brick husks with sagging canopies shading boarded storefronts…