‘Town That Garbage Built’ for sale in Pennsylvania
REDUCTION, Pa. (AP) — A former garbage company town in Pennsylvania is up for sale for $1.5 million.
The family that has owned the Village of Reduction for nearly 70 years has decided to divest itself of the 75-acre property once hailed as “the town that garbage built.”
The asking price includes farmland, 19 single-family homes and a 1914 one-room schoolhouse.
The village was once home to about 400 employees of the American Reduction Company. The company operated a plant that processed tons of garbage a day from Pittsburgh, before the city opened its own facility in 1936.
The current owner’s father bought the property in 1948 for $10,000.
About 60 people still live in the village, and most say they prefer to stay put.