In the News: Parma, New Madrid County, Missouri

[Pronounced MAD rid, just like we in Wisconsin pronounce BER lin.]

Source:  Wikipedia (as is map below)

Black Mayor Is Voted In and a Small Town’s Staff Empties Out.  (The New York Times, 4/23/2015)

2010 census:  713, down from 852 in 2000.

Parma’s main strip looks like a bombed-out Wild West town, with abandoned brick buildings — an awning collapsing from one of them — broken windows and piles of rubble inside. There are two convenience stores and a couple of farming-related businesses, but generally little commercial life. Things here faded over the past several decades, as did the surrounding area, as small-time farming was overtaken by industrial operations, hurting the economy, residents said.

Sources:  City Data, U.S. Census Quickfacts

Here ends another episode of The Land That Time Forgot.