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frogmarch

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Mon Jun 30, 2014, 12:01 PM Jun 2014

Anyone want to buy a South Dakota town?

http://chadrad.com/newsstory.cfm?story=34061

RAPID CITY, S.D. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) - A businessman is selling his small, southwestern South Dakota town for $400,000.

Lance Benson is the sole owner of Swett, an unincorporated hamlet in Bennett County about two hours southeast of Rapid City. Benson, who owns a traveling-concessions business, put the town on the market last week.

Benson says the town used to have a population of 40 people decades ago, as well as a post office, a few houses and a grocery store.

Now, the town is just a bar, workshop, three trailers and a house. He and his wife still live there.

He says ownership of the town concentrated to a single person over the years. Benson bought it in 1998.




If you don’t, no Swett.
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Anyone want to buy a South Dakota town? (Original Post) frogmarch Jun 2014 OP
interesting…. dhill926 Jun 2014 #1
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