History of the Apple in Lincoln Lincoln is a small town lying 20
miles southwest of Fayetteville on U.S. Highway 62, and about 8
miles from the border of Oklahoma. Like all small towns with no
major industry it is fostered by the surrounding agricultural
interests. Actually, the roots of Lincoln are enmeshed with the
roots of the apple trees that originally fostered it. As one old
time puts it, "Apples, principally the Ben Davis, made the
town." Once, not so many years ago, in the estimation of those
who have passed their primer, this whole mountain area was
beautified and mad fragrant-as well as prosperous-by the pink
and white apple blossoms in spring and winy sweet odor of
ripened apples, handling red and yellow, from the trees in the
fall. But now since changing climatic conditions, plus
increasing costs of production, have caused many apple growers
to bulldoze their orchards and turn them back to pasture. Beef,
dairy products and poultry rank first in produce. Names of
apples formerly grown here such as