It’s Election Day. Town mayors and city council officials are hoping for the votes to win the election, so they can run the town.
Why buy votes when you can buy the town? You’ll win every election. You can be Mayor, Chief of Police, Postmaster, and operate the General Store
These towns are (or were) listed for sale:
Wide Awake, CO. A ghost town. It includes 46 acres of private property and 175 acres of deeded Federal land. The asking price is $250,000. Beat writer Jack Kerouac once came to visit.
(ghost towns are a bargain– Palisade, NV, sold for $125,000; Rocky Bar, ID was offered for $250,000)
Wauconda, WA: $1,125,000 (includes a house and the Post Office)
Monse, WA: $575,000 for 60 acres that includes seven houses, an old schoolhouse, a general store and post office.
Albert, TX: just north of San Antonio: Reduced to $595,000 (pop. 4). Includes 85 year old dance hall, ice house and beer garden. You also get the creek.
Garryownen, Montana. Custer permanently slept here. Includes a tomb.
Sunrise, WY. An historic mining town in eastern Wyoming. You get the old Glory Hole.
Bridgeville, CA once sold on eBay. It was on the market again for $1.3 million. An old Pony Express stop.
Buy a gold mining town in Victoria, Canada: Porcupine Township: $1.5 million. Maybe you can dig up the money in town.
The Grove, TX. Falsely classified as a ghost town, it’s actually an Historical Museum Town, listed with the Smithsonian Institution as such.
Anyone know of other towns for sale?
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