TILLER, Ore. -
In a small, dying timber town in Tiller, it's true to talk about it.
You may miss it if you blink.
But now, this point on the southwest Oregon map has produced a huge
Almost the whole city is on sale, which is a very unlikely reason.
Ask for $3.
5 million brings six houses, closed integrated shops and gas stations, land under the Post Office, undeveloped plots, water rights and infrastructure including sidewalks, fire hydrants and work power stations.
Tille elementary school, grade 6
The buildings closed in 2014 will be sold separately for $350,000.
Connecticut mom Virginia Beach shooting protesters interrupt Harris potential buyers have come forward but remain anonymous and the backup service is still accepted.
The list represents a melancholy intersection of Tiller, once
After the end of last century, there were bustling logging outposts in the depths of the Umpqua National Forest, about 230 miles south of Portland.
The post office opened in 1902, with miners, logging workers, ranchers and farmers pouring into the community along a pristine river.
The micro-tillers market is abandoned at any time in the city center of tillers, Ore. (
AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
AP then, almost thirty years ago, federal woodlands around Tiller were almost stagnant due to environmental regulations.
The lumber factory was closed and the family moved away.
A long-term resident began to buy the property.
When he died three years ago, most of the town was his family.
Then Tille Elementary School is closed and ready for sale, and there is also a small market where this person's property is bought ---
The potential becomes obvious.
The property includes more than 256 mu (
1 square kilometer)
Of the 29 different plots, from residential to industrial, water and timber rights and a wide range of zones.
About 235 people still live in the unincorporated area around Tiller and have long relied on buildings now sold on the historic Highway 227 as a gathering place and only a few miles away.
"Between the dying economy and the dying owners, Tille has become an unprecedented new opportunity," said estate executor Richard Caswell . ".
"I started to receive inquiries from all over the world, basically what is it?
What can you do with it?
It will be buyers and their imagination to decide what the rudder handle can become.
Potential buyers, through seller brokers, say they intend to turn schools into some type of campus and create a "permanent culture" that respects the remaining residents of the town and the picturesque development on emerald curves
The Southern colored apqua River.
They want to make it a priority to reopen the market.
"Buyers understand that they have only one attempt at first impressions," said garlitler, LandandWildlife's main agent.
Seller's realtor com
"They understand that this is a community of people who live here, and it can be a sensitive topic. . . .
They want to solve the project in the community.
In addition, the future of Tille is still shrouded in mystery.
The Minister of Finance gave a detailed account of the tax cuts and other headlines that focused on money. But there are still a lot of people living in the mountains, where the bears walk on the porch and it takes 30-to receive the cell phone signal-minute drive.
On Friday, residents gathered at the church for coffee and cinnamon rolls, where they received emails --
Post Office-guest room-when it’s open.
Some people have a sense of humor: it is written on a small, weather-ridden sign posted on a market that already does not exist, "the last one in the rudder handle will shine.
Sarah Krum and some other mothers adhere to a sense of community, meet and play with young children in the church, one of the few places that are not for sale.
She raised five daughters here, and when Tille Elementary School was closed she had to send young children to school in the next nearest town.
"It's a bit scary, especially raising our kids where we like," Crume said . ".
"I just want to know what kind of impact it will have on people.
Paula Ellis grew up at Tille on the farm, hunting and riding here as a child.
Her daughter's bed is decorated with the skins of the bears they killed in their teens, and the antlers of the first bagged deer hang on the wall near the front door.
This abandoned Tiller Elementary School is located in a weed in the center of Tiller, Oregon. (
AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
AP she met her husband in elementary school and recalled the end of each yearof-the-
The annual competition for the children known as the Tiller Olympic Games.
From the nearby top of the mountain, a huge cross rises from her home, and Ellis recently finds himself praying.
"If you choose to live here and raise your children here, this is a community you fall in love with," Ellis said with tears . ".
"We don't want to lose it.
However, Gary Newman, a retiree who lives five miles (8 kilometers)
There are different options outside the city.
For years, he has watched the rudder handle wither in the farewell line.
He wants buyers to bring new jobs and new lives to the community.
He said: "I have been here for 17 years and I want to spend the rest of my life here.