Well, Georgia real estate saw a rare listing this week, with the historic town of Gay hitting the market.
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About 60 acres and 17 historic buildings spread across much of the centre of
Gay, a small town, are up for sale, with an asking price of $13.5 million.
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The unusual listing in the Southeast includes commercial storefronts, hospitality venues, residential properties, agricultural and timber acreage, established event infrastructure, and the popular Gay Cotton Fair.
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Georgia’s historic town of Gay hits the market
Gay sits about 50 minutes south of Atlanta.
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The town has largely retained its 19th-century charm, with original storefronts and historic structures still intact.
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The properties being sold are owned by Atlanta architect Keith Summerour and his family.
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His son Harrison is co-listing the offering with Bonneau Ansley, founder of Bonneau & Company, a real estate firm focused on development projects.
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While historic buildings often land on the market, Ansley says, this one is rare.
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“In more than three decades of selling real estate, I’ve never seen an opportunity quite like this.
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Historic buildings come to market.
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Farms come to market.
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Resorts come to market.
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But the chance to acquire significant ownership in an authentic American town with operating businesses, a built-in customer base and tremendous future potential is extraordinarily rare,” Bonneau Ansley said in a release.
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What the buyer gets
The 60-acre assemblage sits in Meriwether County, Gay, with easy access to Atlanta, Peachtree City, Senoia, Newnan, LaGrange and Columbus, as well as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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The 19th-century town has almost every detail intact.
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The well-preserved storefronts, historic buildings and an authentic rural identity are rare to find or even recreate in today’s times.
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The land being sold also includes a century-old cotton gin and a former peach processing facility that once served as a shipping hub for South Georgia farms.
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One of the most promising details of the sale is that it comes with two operating businesses with solid revenue streams.
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The Towerhouse Farm & Brewery, a craft brewery and taproom, generates approximately $510,000 annually.
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The package also covers the Gay Cotton Fair, a twice-yearly festival that draws roughly 60,000 visitors each time and produces about $750,000 annually.
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The festival is scheduled for Oct. 3–4, 2026.
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Combined, the two operations generate roughly $1.26 million per year, according to ownership figures provided in marketing materials.
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The town attracts over 100,000 visitors annually, while more than 1 million vehicles pass through Gay each year, according to the owners.
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Not just that, this town and surrounding areas have recently attracted attention from film and television productions seeking the cinematic appeal of west Georgia’s rolling countryside and preserved small-town settings.
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‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Lawless’, ‘Till’ and ‘Barbecue Showdown’ have all filmed in West Georgia.
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“Gay represents something increasingly difficult to find in America: authenticity,” Keith Summerour said.
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“The buildings, the streets, the agricultural landscape and the stories embedded in this place were not created for tourism; they evolved naturally over generations.
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The opportunity is not to reinvent Gay, but to thoughtfully steward its history while helping it reach its full potential as one of the South’s most distinctive rural destinations.”
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This 60-acre property sits within a growing regional collection of experiential tourism and hospitality destinations, including Big Red Oak Plantation sporting preserve and Quercus, Georgia’s Relais & Châteaux hotel and dining destination.
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“Most real estate offerings require years of investment before meaningful revenue materialises.
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The property includes established businesses, recurring events, hospitality assets, rental income and a destination that already attracts more than 100,000 visitors each year.
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For the right buyer, there is an opportunity to build on an existing economic engine rather than starting from scratch,” Harrison Summerour, whose family owns and operates the properties, added.
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