Buy an Old West town in South Dakota for $0.8M

The whole town ("kit and kaboodle!") of Scenic, South Dakota is up for sale, for the asking price of USD800,000. Dave Olsen, a local realtor, has put the town up for sale, including its two jails (one still fit for use!), train depot, museum, dance hall, saloon and bunkhouse. Also, there's DSL.

46-Acres (approximately 12 acres in town-lots & 34 acres surrounding) U.S Post Office Land Lease…..Longhorn Fuel & Food Convenience Store, World Famous Longhorn Saloon, Very Large Dance Hall with basketball court, Large Museum with knotty pine interiors, Bunkhouse sleeps 8-10, 2 freestanding Retail Stores, Historic Train Depot, One Working Jail, One Abandoned Historic Jail, Many Out-Buildings, Residence Home, Residence Modular Home.

Township of Scenic, SD Governing Boards:
Volunteer Fire Department
Community Board
Township Board

Departments:
Scenic Water Department (Rural Water System) Fees: $15/mo Water for home, hydrant , store, hookup $ 6/mo Sewer for home, store, hookup (sewer is piped to a lagoon located on the north side of town)

Utilities:
Township Sewer & Water
Golden West (Electricity, Telephone & DSL)

Buy Scenic SD

Got $799,000? You could buy a town in South Dakota (CNN)

• [Brainspore]

  (Homicidal Yul Brynner android not included.)

• [Jack Holmes]

  Buy Scenic.
  Establish rogue state.
  ???
  Profit.

• [Andrew Battista]

  this is awesome!

• [Jayne Hoogenberk]

  What’s in that lagoon?

  • [martona]

    Did you not read? poop.

  • [Michael Smith]

    What’s in that lagoon?

    Whats not in the lagoon?

  • [Scott]

    lagoon is a $h1t hole

• [Navin_Johnson]

  This could be your Galt’s Gulch guys.  Put up or shut up.

• [MrJM]

  If you have money to burn, you could easily buy one of South Dakota’s two senate seats for $800,000.

• [Brian Huntington]

  HBO should buy and bring back Deadwood. 

  • [finette]

    …You do realize that Deadwood is still there? Scenic isn’t even in the Hills.

• [Lotney]

  Google maps:

  http://goo.gl/hLDeS

  Street view available!

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  The opportunities to run a fetish resort are considerable.

  • [Michael Smith]

    The opportunities to run a fetish resort are considerable.

    Not as much as here.

    Incidentally I think it would be better if links could have a style distinct from normal text.

• [Donald Petersen]

  Very Large Dance Hall with basketball court

  At long last, my search is finally over!

• [tsturm]

  Now this is crazy. I’ve been to this very saloon about 20 years ago. Nice town, and as the name implies – very scenic.

• [Tony Moore]

  Oh, man! if i had that kinda scratch, i’d totally do it.

  • [Jason Brooks]

    Which is probably why you don’t…

• [BillGlover]

  Main St. becomes “Bombing Range Rd.” as you leave town to the south. What a great setting for a weird tale.

• [Carrie White]

  How cold does it get there? And is the palce under snow more then not?

• [Carrie White]

  I could buy 46 acres and build the place for a lot less then 799,000.And would have trees sprouting up in the buildings.

  • [jphilby]

    Yeah but replicating that ghost-town ambience is not cheap my entrepenurial friend.

• [Carrie White]

  Wouldn’t dam it ,wouldn’t have trees sprouting up.

• [anansi133]

  looks like the perfect place to build my life-size replica of Serenity.

• [selfish]

  Didn’t Charlie Manson start at something like this?

• [Rks1157]

  Damn it! And to think I just spent my last dime on another stinking condo in LA.

• [Scott]

  owning a ghost town would be cool if you could tax ghost.

• [Grace Acosta]

  Am I going to be the only one here who wants to turn it into a steampunk Wild Wild West?  Think of the conventions!  

• [Hillary Peatfield]

  Joss Whedon should buy this and bring back Firefly!