Buford in the state of Wyoming, which has a population of just one, comes with its own post code, three bedroom house, and century-old schoolhouse.
America's self-proclaimed smallest town has been sold at auction for $9,00,000 to a Vietnamese buyer following a fierce bidding war.
Buford in the state of Wyoming, which has a population of just one, comes with its own post code, three bedroom house, and century-old schoolhouse.
There is also a local shop, a garage, a barn, a mobile phone tower, a car park and 10 acres of land.
Don Sammons, 61, the single resident since the 1980s, put the town up for sale after deciding to move on.
A total of 25 serious bidders signed up for the auction, which started at $1,00,000 but quickly reached nine times that amount.
The victorious purchaser was a businessman from Vietnam who beat out competition from internet bidders across the United States and in Hong Kong.
The new owner, who has declined to be identified, flew in from Ho Chi Minh City to be present in person for the auction.
In a statement he said: "Owning a piece of property in the US has been my dream. It was a long journey but I made it at last. It is the American dream." Sammons, who served as a US Army radio operator in Vietnam in the late 1960s, said of the new owner's nationality: "I think it's funny how things come full circle."
He plans to retire from his unofficial role as "mayor" of Buford and travel to a new destination with "maybe a palm tree." Sammons said: This is a bitter sweet day for me, but in reality, I couldn't be happier." Buford, which is 1,150 miles east of San Francisco, traces its origins to the 1860s and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
It was named after Civil War Union Army General John Buford and once had 2,000 residents before the railroad was re-routed.
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