AMERICA'S SMALLEST TOWN: Sold for $900,000
by Big D and Bubba
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posted Apr 6 2012 8:32AM
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The smallest town in the United States was sold yesterday (Thursday) to two businessmen from Vietnam for $900,000 in an auction.
The town of Buford, Wyoming has a population of one and consists of just a gas station and convenience store, a three-bedroom house and a few small buildings. Its 10 acres of land run along interstate 80.
About 12 interested parties turned out for the auction, which began at $100,000, but quickly rose from there. The winning bidders were taken away by auction officials, who shielded them from reporters, but the town's only current resident Don Sammons has never shied away from the media. He's lived there since 1980, back when the town's population was three, but since then, his wife died and his son moved away. He's owned the town since 1990 and found the auction bittersweet, wiping back tears, saying, "I don't know when it will hit me. I've lived here half my life. I'm an emotional person, and I hope I handle it an adult manner."
He plans to move to Windsor, Colorado to be closer to his son
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