
The Hunger Games ghost town hits the market for £1.5 million
13 years after the first Hunger Games movie hit the big screen, one of the franchise’s iconic filming locations, Henry River Mill Village in Hickory, North Carolina, is up for grabs at $1.95 million (about £1.5 million), per the New York Post.
The 70-acre property is split into two separate listings. One offers a 43-acre parcel of land for $800,000, while the other, which consists of 28 acres and multiple buildings (including a fully renovated rental home that has operated as an Airbnb), is available for $1.15 million.
The village is an hour northwest of Charlotte. It appeared onscreen as District 12 in the first instalment of the Hunger Games films, which hit theatres in 2012. There are 30 residential properties across both listings, including 20 mill homes built in 1905 that are “ripe for restoration,” as the area is “one of the last, if not the last intact mill village in the state and is on the National Register of Historic Places,” per the Charlotte Observer. The mill village is perched above a private U-shaped river and sits adjacent to the 189-acre Bakers Mountain Park.
The mill reportedly shut down in 1970. It burned down seven years later. Over the decades that followed, the abandoned village became a ghost town, with 14 mill houses lost to decay and the local boarding house demolished. The site remains unoccupied for now, with the last resident vacating the secluded estate in 2000. With the exception of their Airbnb rental, there is no running water or toilets in the majority of the homes.
Since the debut of The Hunger Games, which starred Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Josh Hutcherson, the Henry River Mill Village became a tourist attraction, garnering $50,000 a year from its visitors for daily tours, special events, and Airbnb reservations, per the Charlotte Observer. The listings were posted ahead of the series’ prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping written by Suzanne Collins, which hit the shelves earlier this week. The movie adaptation is slated for release in November 2026.
This story originally featured on architecturaldigest.com