The Wall Street Journal-20080125-WEEKEND JOURNAL- The Home Front- House of the Week - Tennessee- Plantation Style
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WEEKEND JOURNAL; The Home Front: House of the Week / Tennessee, Plantation Style
What: Farm of about 1,000 acres with plantation-style house of 8,350 square feet with three bedrooms.
Where: Jamestown, Tenn., along the Kentucky border, about 100 miles northwest of Knoxville.
Amenities: Stocked pond of about four acres, guest house, log cabin, family cemetery, creek, vegetable garden, orchard, storm cellar, smoke house, woodshed and barn.
Asking Price: $5.5 million
Annual Property Taxes: $1,766
Listing Agent: Doug Hart, of Hall & Hall, [email protected]; 307- 645-3297
Due Diligence: George W. Young, an ancestor of President Harry S. Truman, first settled on the property, according to Appalachian historian John Rice Irwin. When insurance executive and conservationist Burton Tally bought the acreage in the 1990s, he added roads and creek crossings, improved the four-acre pond and restored horse and walking trails as well as an old family cemetery and a log cabin. In 2004, Mr. Tally built this property's main house in the style of an 1835 plantation house with a front porch and recessed columns. He donated about 1,000 acres of adjacent land to the Nature Conservancy in 1999. The current property has about 140 acres of meadowland suitable for grazing or farming and borders the Pickett State Forest.
