Dogpatch USA

"While planning your trip to Arkansas you might have found the town of "Dogpatch"
on your Rand McNally in between Harrison and Jasper on Highway 7. Local residents
petitioned the post office and the name of the town was changed to "Marble Falls"
in 1997, but Dogpatch still lingers on many maps. Dogpatch took its name from an
amusement park that opened here in 1968. Over a thousand acres were originally
set aside for development. By comparison, Disneyland was forty acres. The park
was based on a popular comic strip called "Li'l Abner" which was set in the fictional
town of Dogpatch, know in the strip as the most miserable place on earth. (Contrast
that with Disney's advertising slogan.) **"

My father, mother, and I went there a couple of times in the early 1970's while
vacationing in Bull Shoals, Arkansas. I was between the ages of 5-7 at the time,
so I really don't remember much about the place overall. Just a few photos and
postcards as souveniers, which were still in the "archives". This page has the bulk
of what is in the "archives". "Dogpatch USA" closed its doors in 1993.

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