![]() I don't know about that, because, as I said, I haven't visited the place in many years. Seems I might have heard many years ago that it was destroyed.Īt any rate, after Windyville's demise, legends arose saying that the town's remaining buildings and its cemeteries were haunted. I'm not sure whether that's still the case or not, but I'm thinking maybe not. ![]() I was writing an article for the Ozarks Mountaineer about small towns that had lost their high schools, and at that time Windyville's old high school building was still standing. The last time I visited Windyville was around the mid-1970s, and it was basically already a ghost town. Windyville had already been losing population and businesses in the mid-1960s at the time of the consolidation, but the school closing hastened the town's demise. I might be wrong, but I think 1965-66 was the last school year before Windyville consolidated with Buffalo. Windyville lost its high school a year or two after I graduated. In fact, I think we even played them a time or two in basketball. I recall that, when I was in high school in the early to mid 1960s at Fair Grove, Windyville still had a high school. Now virtually extinct, Windyville, Missouri, was located in Dallas County about 15 miles northeast of Buffalo.
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