attend to adorn in some recently iconic Tinseltown real estate ? For just $ 1,400,000 , you could own Katniss ’ haunts in District 12 , which happen to be the 72 - Akko defunct company town of Henry River Mill Village , North Carolina in real life .
83 - year - erstwhile owner Wade Shepherd — who has never read The Hunger Games — allowed the movie to film on his property , and its success has since brought a glut of snoopy tourists . “ Day and night , they ’re driving through , accept pictures , getting out and walking . I ’m just bombarded with people , ” claims Shepherd .
Unbeknownst to many looky - W.C. , Henry River Mill Village has a grim story that make it an apropos setting for the dystopian blockbuster . excuse the AP :
The mill , which opened in 1905 , bring about fine yarn . The hamlet was designed as a planned biotic community with company stores , walk and immature spaces . In 1966 , a sheriff was fool away and shoot down in the village by a James Mill worker . By the time Shepherd bought the town , three years after the mill close , there were Thursday night fire hook games on the street , “ and by Sunday afternoon , they were all drunk and blast . ”
Shepherd lives across the river from the town , and says he buy the attribute “ to protect my interests . ” He does n’t think he could make enough money to make it deserving open up a tourist attraction , though he ’s look at a petition to allow a go company bring a group through .
My money ’s on a lot of die - voiceless Hunger Games re - enactors buy the belongings and living their lives out in Amish - style tranquility , save for the occasional crouch - and - arrow dying match .
ViaNY Mag . Top photo : Jeff Willhelm / Charlotte Observer
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