(Editors note: This is the first in a series of stories investigating the decline in rural Kansas and efforts to reverse it.)
COURTLAND, Kansas Rural Kansas has a storied past, but decades of population decline stand poised to turn many once-vibrant places into ghost towns.
The struggle for survival reveals itself in emptied Main Streets, shuttered factories and tired-looking neighborhoods dominated by houses built before World War II.
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