  USA Smallest town in the US sold at auction (karma: 2)
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By naturalizedtexan   Comments: 7064, member since Tue Mar 27, 2007On Fri Apr 06, 2012 02:43 PM
Tiny town has new (foreign) owners
Located just off IH 80, Buford, Wyoming - elevation 8000 feet, population 1 - is the smallest town in the US. Its 10 acres (4 hectares) encompasses a small general store & gas station, a 1-room school house, a post office (Zip Code 820529) and a modular house. It is one of the highest points in the state of Wyoming and is the hometown of one man - Don Sammons.
As of yesterday, it belongs to two Vietnamese investors, who paid nine times the asking price of $100,000 to own the village.
Sammons moved to Buford along with his wife and son in 1980. He purchased the entire town, along with its only business - the Buford Trading Post - in 1992. His wife died in 1995, leaving only two inhabitants. His son, saying the town's politics were not democratic enough, left in 2007.
Sammons, who fought in Vietnam with the US Army in 1968 - 69, was a little surprised that the town was bought by Vietnamese.
Buford, named after General John Buford of Civil War fame, had a peak population of 2,000 and is famous in history as the site of the holdup that earned Butch Cassidy a term in the Wyoming State Penitentiary. Now it's made history again by becoming the only town in the US with a 100% Vietnamese population.
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By chevy Comments: 10141, member since Tue Nov 16, 2004On Fri Apr 06, 2012 03:56 PM
As of yesterday, it belongs to two Vietnamese investors, who paid nine times the asking price of $100,000 to own the village.
Either they know something or they are dumb as a box of rocks. |
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By tom25 Comments: 5189, member since Thu May 01, 2003On Fri Apr 06, 2012 04:23 PM
If it's not the Chinese it's the another group of Asians buying up America. |
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By MowerMan  Comments: 792, member since Tue Mar 08, 2011On Fri Apr 06, 2012 05:36 PM
tom25 wrote:
If it's not the Chinese it's the another group of Asians buying up America.
Beats the hell out of niggers moving in and burning it down. |
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By LTKilling Comments: 9951, member since Sun Aug 14, 2005On Fri Apr 06, 2012 07:26 PM
there where 2000 people in that town and now no one |
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By frankthekulak Comments: 4229, member since Tue Dec 09, 2008On Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:21 PM
komrade LTKilling wrote:
there where 2000 people in that town and now no one
Kinda like detwat. 'Cept the decline there was due to an infestation. |
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By NikosAliagas Comments: 1945, member since Sun Jul 15, 2007On Sat Apr 07, 2012 07:41 AM
As of yesterday, it belongs to two Vietnamese investors, who paid nine times the asking price of $100,000 to own the village.
Sounds like VAPD has already bought more than 90.000 UnrealPolitics.com logos from shon and his business partner. |
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By balls Comments: 28498, member since Tue Aug 24, 2004On Sat Apr 07, 2012 08:22 AM
NikosAliagas wrote:
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Sounds like VAPD has already bought more than 90.000 UnrealPolitics.com logos from shon and his business partner.
Sounds like a bunch of words strung together by a eurochimp. |
