Roxie once ‘flourishing’ now known for gardens

Published 12:00 am Sunday, June 26, 2005

ROXIE &045; This sleepy town doesn’t have much in the way of business anymore. Most of the residents leave each morning to work somewhere else.

East and West boulevards, where most of the stores and the post office and city hall are located, doesn’t have much going on these days.

&uot;Roxie used to be a flourishing little town,&uot; Robert Brown, a longtime resident of Roxie, said. &uot;But we lost Georgia Pacific, and that really hurt.&uot;

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But several hundred people still make their homes here, and more than a few of them have some of the