skip to main | skip to sidebar

AMAZING FACTS

Labels

Blogumulus by Roy Tanck and Amanda Fazani

“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”

Labels

VISITORS

PRASANTH

ONLINE

ALL POSTS HERE

▼ 2008 (105)
- ► Nov 2008 (27)
- ► Oct 2008 (11)
- ▼ Sep 2008 (59)
- ► Aug 2008 (1)
- ► Jul 2008 (7)

Blogger Template by Blogcrowds.

ISOLATED TOWN

Posted by AMAZING FACTS at 3:46 AM

A small, uninhabited town in Texas has been sold on the internet auction site, eBay, to a buyer in Italy for a little over $3m. The town, called Albert, is about 100km (62 miles) outside San Antonio and features a schoolhouse, a dancehall and a bar.

Albert, a 13-acre town about 50 miles north of San Antonio with a resident population of four, is in the Texas Hill Country. The town's current owner, Bobby Cave, said he was checking the identity of the buyer, to confirm the deal. He added he had several other serious bids should the sale fall through.

Mr Cave, 47, an estate agent, said he sold the land after three-and-a-half years as he was ready to move on to his next project. "I bought it with the intention of creating a little family camping venue where people could come out and drink and enjoy local live music," he told PA news agency.

He said the town's population consisted of himself and groundsman at weekends. The winning buyer will take over an icehouse created from the frame of the old general store, a pavilion, an 85-year-old dance hall, a tractor shed and a three-bedroom house, together with peach and pecan orchards.

Labels: FACTS ABOUT PLACES

0 comments:

Newer Post Older Post Home

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)