Owning A Little Piece of History

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Perhaps it's just a bit of the little kid still in me. Or perhaps it's a bit of the horror writer I am. But the idea of owning a ghost town is actually quite appealing to me. And there happens to be one that is for sale in California. It's indeed a small town to be sure with just a few buildings. Still, if there can be romance in owning such a thing, it would certainly be here. Obviously I would probably just make a fun backyard out of the whole thing and build a large scale house on the property provided that could be done reasonably, and do a little makeover on some of the buildings—I am not sure I would try to commercialize it in any way. With 300 acres of surrounding land at $925,000 I'd consider that to be a bargain. I wonder if the town could be renamed to something I would want to call it and function as an actual town with a population of two? My wife and I of course. Either way, given the opportunity, and given you had the money to do it, would you want to own a ghost town, and what would you do with it?