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Farmers Breathe Life Into a Ghost Town

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A rural North Dakota town left nearly abandoned due to the threat of flooding in the mid 1990s, has drawn new residents who farm the land vacated. When floodwaters from Devils Lake threatened a North Dakota community in the mid 1990s, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) bought residents' homes thought to be in the potential path of rising waters. The homes were razed and people left town. Years later, a couple moved to town and started an herb farm where houses once stood.

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Post Date: February 1, 2008