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This Entire Town Is For Sale But Nobody Wants It. You Are Going To Cringe When You Find Out Why
Messynessychic.com
By MessyNessy
Johnsonville, Connecticut may be completely void of (human) inhabitants at present and characterised by those particular houses where one might occasionally see the faint shadows of children in nightgowns watching you from the attic window, but hey– a few licks of paint and a good spring clean to wash those ghosts right out of your lair and you could be calling it home in no time! The 62 acre historic village in the nutmeg state goes up for auction with a starting bid of $800,000 in four days time.
And in all seriousness, what MessyNessyChic doesn’t dream of owning their own ghost town?!
So first question– why are they selling an entire town? Well, for starters, it’s been vacant for more than 20 years and through its history, has been abandoned not once, not twice, but three times.
Dating back to the 1830s, Johnsonville was once a thriving mill town and popular recreation spot set along the Moodus River, with amenities including a restaurant called the Red House Restaurant, a general store and a one-room schoolhouse (pictured below).
Victorian and colonial-style houses with fireplaces and pillared porches were built by the families of the mill-owners where they lived contently up until the 1950s. All the historic buildings still remain. But then modernization crept up on the quaint community, work dried up and Johnsonville became a ghost town for the first time.
still not cringing.
No cringing here either.. I think they forgot to write about that part, OR this is some sick advertising… It would be FUN, if I were filthy rich to restore that town… To heck with making it live, just preserve it, it’s beautiful… UNLESS the CRINGE part is something like it was a nuclear waste dump site or something along those lines…
Offer it for a dollar, and I’m still not buying it – and here’s why:
Connecticut property taxes are more burdensome than the overrated prices to start with. For 62 acres, you’ve got to consider that it is HISTORIC, so you can’t tear it down, you can’t modernize it extensively, you’ve got a white elephant you’ve got to keep in pretty-much the same appearance it is now, at rather high costs, and at the same time, you can’t really do anything with it.
This isn’t an old-west Wyoming ghost town you can plow under and build a new gas station and stack housing on near an interstate, this is a ‘Connecticut HISTORIC Site’.
So, in a nutshell, no, it’s not that I’m scared of it – but who in their right mind is going to plop down close to $1-million for a white elephant in god-forsaken CONNECTICUT that you can’t alter, must maintain, can’t use and can’t profit from – while being taxed to death by the state and feds over?
Yes, I am scared, and it is not of little smoky wisps in the night – it’s the insane East Coast Big Brother that wants my money more than I do, while telling me what to do with it.
TRUTH!
Exactly. Property taxes would be astronomical in a place like that. Then there are all the rules, historic and environmental, that would keep you from doing much with the place, like starting up any businesses other than touristy crap which does not pay if you only have a little out of the way place like this and it exposes you to all kinds of lawsuits if someone hurts themselves there.
More sensationalist rubbish – keep it up, your credibility wanes day by day . . .
Beautiful. I would buy it!
Sold for 1.9 million in October of 2014. Good reporting. Not even hard to find.
more scare mongering BS, this has nothing to do with the economy… npbody is buying because it’s OLD, the place doesnt have WIFI, plumbing probably shot, no one wants to live in the boonies and everyone wants to live in the city.
by the time they figure out you buldozed it, it won’t be a historic site anymore.
The liberal’s there would have you incarcerated then hung. I guess you could go back and haunt the place though. There’s always a bright side to things.
Someone could just but it for the 800k, then a month later pull a Silverstein and make out like a bandit.
Not only did they forget to write or link to part of their story, it isn’t even current. This town was listed at auction starting at $800,000 in 2014 and sold for 1.9Mil. http://www.connecticutmag.com/Blog/Connecticut-Today/October-2014/Sold-Connecticuts-Ghost-Town-Johnsonville-Draws-High-Bid-of-19-Million-in-Online-Auction/