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Old 12-22-2012, 03:14 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA..don't go to GSU
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For a mere 2.5 million you can buy Toomsboro. Population: 700 lol


A Georgia developer put up for sale 28 properties in the quaintly historic hamlet of Toomsboro. The more than 50-acre parcel includes a 500-seat opera house, a barber shop, an 18-suite hotel, a bank with brass teller cages, a railroad station, about a dozen houses, a functioning grist mill, a syrup mill and a cotton warehouse.


The owner was preservationist Bill Lucado, who bought the town at auction. He told The Associated Press that the unique, almost intact early-18th-century town could be used as a set for a movie production company.

^from city-data incidentally.

It would be cool to buy the set of the Hunger Games though...sorta creepy. Visiting a ghost town would be a pretty eire experience.
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Old 12-22-2012, 03:53 PM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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Toomsboro is in Wilkinson County, home of Honey Boo-boo (who lives one town over in McIntyre). Pretty soon Mama June may be rich enough to own the whole place ...
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Old 12-22-2012, 08:03 PM
 
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The article about the sale probably should say early-19th century town.


The earliest thing in "Georgia," Savannah, was not founded until 1733--and that can barely be considered early-18th century.
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Old 12-22-2012, 08:05 PM
 
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Toomsboro, Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 12-22-2012, 10:36 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA..don't go to GSU
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Citing wikipidea like a boss.

lol idk I would sort of want to own Honey Boo Boo's land.. it would be like a 2.5 million dollar fat camp investment.
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Old 12-22-2012, 10:52 PM
 
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Citing wikipidea like a boss.

lol idk I would sort of want to own Honey Boo Boo's land.. it would be like a 2.5 million dollar fat camp investment.
Not posting wikipedia for citing purposes--I just posted it to add more information to this thread.
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Old 12-22-2012, 10:55 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA..don't go to GSU
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Not posting wikipedia for citing purposes--I just posted it to add more information to this thread.
My point remains.

I'm just giving you a hard time lol

But honestly, I wonder if that land could be bought and turned into something.
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Old 12-22-2012, 11:03 PM
 
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But honestly, I wonder if that land could be bought and turned into something.

I don't know. But I doubt it.

Are you old enough to remember the "buzz" when Kim Basinger "bought" Brasleton? Nothing came of it and I think she had to sell it because she lost a lawsuit or something (needed the money...I think the lawsuit had to do with her pulling out of the weird-ass film Boxing Helena).


Kim Basinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Braselton, Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 12-23-2012, 03:51 AM
 
Location: North Fulton
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This thread belongs to the Georgia forum.

Even so, I don't think such an investment would go over well.
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Old 12-23-2012, 04:02 AM
 
Location: Columbus,Georgia
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Wow that's near Bibb County. Macon should invest!
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