Buford, WY – A Wyoming town advertised as the smallest in the United States has sold at auction for $900,000.
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Buford is located between Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wyoming. An unidentified Vietnamese man placed the winning bid at auction Thursday.
As owner of the place along Interstate 80, he will get a gas station and convenience store, a schoolhouse from 1905, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres of land, and a three-bedroom home.
The town has had just one inhabitant, Don Sammons, who served with the U.S. Army in Vietnam in the late 1960s. He plans to retire from his unofficial title as “mayor” of the unincorporated community and write a book about his experiences in Buford.
The town traces its origins to the 1860s and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
For that price I can buy a 1 bedroom basement apartment in BP.
Interesting why a yid didn’t buy it and start a yideshe shtetel
Does he get official plates for his car
I guess it doesn’t have a post office or a police dept. either. I would love to have my own town. Maybe then I wouldn’t have to pay property taxes.
I don’t get it -since when do towns get sold ?
He lives in the smallest town in America; I live in the largest.
Nassau county has no cities, only 3 towns. The largest is Hempstead- has more than 59 villages and close to a million people!