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Custom house with stone wall entry down 0.6 mile driveway.
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View shows home two ponds and barn. Distant mountain in center not part of property.
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Two of several barns on the property.
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Front of house, roll out awnings not shown.
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Guest house with finished apartment in lower half, storage upper half, new roof.
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Fenced tillable land.
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Large new barn with office and vet lab.
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Rental house a mile away from primary house. Five acres in front good for pasture or cultivation.
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Tennessee Real Estate For Sale - Large Track of Land ($1,500,000)
Location: Northeast Tennessee - near Rogersville
All photos show only farm owned land unless otherwise noted.
Cedar Springs is a rare estate with 300 beautiful acres located on the Clinch Mountain in N.E. Tennessee. This farm has water galore with at least six springs. The main house uses spring water with a reserve of 1700 gallons. This water is so pure that it can be used without treatment, even though the present owners use filtration and an ultra violet system. The one attempt to drill a well hit natural gas and was capped.
The farm has tillable land, cross-fenced pastures, and there is also abundant timber and plenty of wildlife including deer, turkey and bobcat. There is a rental house about one mile from the main house. There is also a separate guest apartment near the main house, six older useable barns, and one new barn. The present owner raises Black Angus cattle but this land would be suitable for other livestock as well as cultivation.
The Area
The farm sits in Northeast Tennessee, 22miles from Rogersville, and about 10 miles from the small towns of Kyles Ford and Sneedville. It is one and a half hours from Knoxville and the University of Tennessee, slightly more than an hour from the Bristol Speedway, 15 miles from Virginia, and 30 miles from Kentucky. It is a historic area near the birthplace of Daniel Boone and was the part of Tennessee that volunteered to side with the Union during the Civil War (hence the nickname The Volunteer State).
Springs from the farm feed the Clinch River. One frequently sees waders in the River, not only fisherman, but also biologists studying the over 50 species of mussels in the area, one of which is said to only live between the bridges in Kyles Ford and Sneedville. The Clinch was once one of the largest pearl producers in the United States. Though pearling is no longer legal, the Clinch River is also famous for trout fishing and other water sports.
Read more about the Clinch River: virginia.gov
Early settlers moving West crossed into Kentucky at the Cumberland Pass and met in a meadow that had a single pine tree (the lonesome pine). Many trails lead to the lonesome pine (Trail of the Lonesome Pine), one of which runs along the top of Clinch Mountain owned by the farm. The present owner’s grandfather wrote the song, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. Nearly .75 miles of the property runs along the top of the mountain.
Geological History
Beneath the farm and the surrounding countryside lies some of the oldest rock in the United States. Geologists are not infrequent visitors to study the red Juniata Formation, visible beneath a steep cliff at the southwest boundary of the farm. This originated about 500 million years ago, when what would become North America was lying with its east coast pointing south, well below the equator. Ninety million years later, when the overlying Clinch sandstone was formed, the continent had turned clockwise about 45 degrees and was moving northward, much of it now above the equator. Fossils from these early times litter the landscape.
Fast forward a few hundred million years and the farm was a part of the Cherokee Nation, when northeast Tennessee was at the edge of the American frontier and still part of North Carolina.
Cedar Springs Farm Today
At one time Cedar Springs was part of the old Greene farm. The Greene farm was known for its orchards, which produced cider and wine in addition to fruit. Some of the descendents of the Greene fruit trees can still be seen dotting the edges of the woods. The farm was then split into three farms and was united again in 2002 by Bill and Sophie Seltzer.