Hur is an

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, United States. Its post office has closed. Named after novel "Ben Hur." The village once had three stores and two grist mills. A crank'em up single wire phone company that served a large area that operated into the 1960s and the Mt. Olive Methodist Church which was established in 1879. It is the home of a widely read Internet newspaper, the Hur Herald, established in 1996 by Bob Weaver. Population never exceeded 40.

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