Entire Town in Connecticut Is Up for Sale
Are you in the market for some new digs?
Well, why buy just a house like every other person in the real estate market when you can own an entire town for about the cost of a New York City apartment?
The village of Johnsonville, located in East Haddam, Connecticut, is up for sale. The 62-acre piece of land was established in the 1830s. The crazy thing is, it's been abandoned for 16 years! But that's about to change. The village sale is taking place on Auction.com. The starting bid was $800,000. At the time this article was written, the bid was $1.1 million.
What? That sounds like a lot of money? Here is what you'd be getting: in addition to the Victorian and colonial-style homes, a restaurant, a general store, a one-room schoolhouse, and a chapel. And did we mention the village is set along picturesque Moodus River?
In the 1960s, millionaire Ray Schmitt bought Johnsonvillle and tried turning it into a tourist attraction. That idea failed. After Schmitt's death in 1998, Johnsonville turned into a ghost town. But there has to be a reason no one has snatched up this place in all this time, so we'll go with the theory that it's haunted!
