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Small Main Street Businesses Revitalize Rural MS Town

They Made Main Street Their Own

How Four Women Revived a Derelict Mississippi Town

These four women are emblematic of a new wave of business and house owners, many of them female, who are revitalizing this small town of just under 4,000.

“All through Mississippi there are these beautiful little towns,” Mr. Ownby said, “and too many of them, sadly, are empty storefronts and decaying housing. A few of them, like Water Valley, have had a revival because of a good idea or a few good ideas. Artists moving in is one option.”

Read the New York Times article here.