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| View Original: | Signs at the tourist-attraction town of Buford in rural Albany County, Wyoming LCCN2015632872.tif.tiff (0x0) | |||
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| Keywords: Signs at the tourist-attraction town of Buford in rural Albany County, Wyoming LCCN2015632872.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 069 ; This desolate place is an attraction that draws visitors off passing Interstate Highway 80 because of the town's official population 1 Beginning in 1984 the 1 was Don Sammons who lived there and ran the town's convenience store after every other resident moved away Buford named for Union major general John Buford during the U S Civil War had 2 000 residents during the building of the transcontinental railroad through town in the 1860s In 2013 the town was sold to a Vietnamese owner who re-branded it as PhinDeli Town Buford ; but the postal addresses still bear the town's original name 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015632872 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/32800/32857a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 32857 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 32857 41 7 4511 0 N 105 18 202 0 W alt 2402_source exif_heading PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||