(uskings.us) The town of Buford, Wyoming – population 1 – was sold for $900,000 to an unidentified buyer from Vietnam on Thursday after an 11-minute Internet auction that attracted worldwide interest.
Wyoming is a state in the Mountain West region of the United States. The 10th largest state by area, it is also the least populous and least densely populated state in the contiguous United States. The tiny Western town garnered online viewers and bidders from 46 countries for the sale of 10-plus acres (4 hectares) with a convenience store, gas station and modular home located in southeastern Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie.
The tiny Western town garnered online viewers and bidders from 46 countries for the sale of 10-plus acres (4 hectares) with a convenience store, gas station and modular home located in southeastern Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie.
The buyer, Phan Dinh Nguyen, flew to Wyoming from Vietnam for a purchase he likened to “the American dream,” according to a statement released by Williams & Williams, the Oklahoma auction house handling the sale.
Don Sammons, long the town’s sole resident, moved with his wife, Terry, from Los Angeles to the Buford area in 1980. In 1992, six years after his wife died, Sammons purchased the town.
Sammons decided to auction off the Interstate 80 hamlet, billed as “the nation’s smallest town” and named after Civil War Union Army General John Buford, to move to Colorado to be near his adult son.
For $900,000, Phan Dinh Nguyen bought the town with his business partner, and renamed it after their coffee brand PhinDeli. At the town’s one gas station, they now sell the coffee.
According to ranker.com and reuters.com. Source of photos: internet
