Wiederkehr Village, Arkansas

Tucked into the southern slopes of the Ozark Mountains in Franklin County, Wiederkehr Village owes its existence to one Swiss immigrant and a hillside that reminded him of home. Johann Andreas Wiederkehr arrived from Switzerland in eighteen eighty, took one look at Saint Mary's Mountain near Altus, and began digging a wine cellar into the rock. He started the winery that same year, and it survived Prohibition.

Today Wiederkehr Wine Cellars is one of the four oldest running wineries in the state. The village itself, population only a few dozen, grew up entirely around that cellar and still carries the family name.