USA Today, July 6, 2006

The tiny town of Berry, Ky., has seen its share of hardship.

Fires in 1933 and 1978 destroyed chunks of its two-block downtown. The railroad discontinued stops there in the early 1960s. This year, the town's only restaurant and lumberyard closed.

Those blows, combined with a dearth of non-farming jobs, have shrunk Berry's population from 2,500 in the 1930s to about 310 today.

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