Columbia, KY, 42728 - For Sale By Owner

Additional features: Floors: 2, Garage size: 2.0, School district: Adair County, Features: Waterfront, Fireplace, Wood Floors

xa0 Are you ready to change your way of life to a more relaxed pace?xa0 Do you want to live with unspoiled nature all around you?xa0 Do you wantxa0not to have to lock your doors or your car?xa0 Do you want to raise your children in a healthful, safe,xa0and natural environment?xa0

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xa0 This propertyxa0canxa0bexa0your own private retreat, where you can walk, orxa0ride horses or four-wheelers over miles of picturesque trails (all on your own land).xa0xa0You can enjoy an excellent climate, with early spring and late fall, rare snowfall, clean air and quiet living.

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xa0 Whatever you’re looking for in a Country Property you will find on Long Meadows Farm. xa0375 acres +/-, in South Central Kentucky (Adair County), in an areaxa0wherexa0Daniel Boone hunted and explored.

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xa0 The 1815 xa0log cabin,xa0original to the site, overlooks a beautiful, widexa0creek (one of two on the property). Wildlife and wild flowers abound on this unspoiled land. Acres of open pasture, forest, springs, Indian caves, fossils, all the pleasures of privacy, yet only 12 miles to the Cumberland Parkway (part of the future Rte. 66 corridor), and the college town of Columbia, with a brand new Super Walmart.xa0xa0Lexington. Louisville,xa0Nashville, and Knoxvillexa0are all within two to three hours drive from Columbia.

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xa0 Lake Cumberland and the famous Cumberland Falls, Barren River Lake and Resort, Lure Lodge and other lake vacation destinations and resorts are all within easy driving distance. Mammoth Cave, the Corvette Museum, Lincoln’s Birthplace, Civil War Battlefield sites, Pleasant Hill Shaker Village, My Old Kentucky Home, and numerous other places of interest are all nearby.

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xa0 You can hunt and fish your own land, or use it to raise horses or cattle. The land could produce crops or be used for orchards or a vineyard. The property is certifiable as an organic farm, since it has not been treated with chemical fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides. There is marketable timber, natural gas, and oil on the property.

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xa0 The log cabin section of the house, which is eligible for Historic registration, has a front porch, and two rooms on the first floor with the original mantle and stone fireplace, piped for gas logs or stove (with a wood stove insert). There is an inexhaustible supply of free firewood for the cutting. You need never pay another fuel bill if you choose not to!

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xa0 A winding stairway leads to the large dormitory loft with a great view of Rock Lick Creek, flowing around the house. There is room to install a second bathroom in the cabin portion of the house.xa0 Additions to the original log structurexa0include a long, multi-windowed room with creek views on two sides, which could be divided into two bedrooms.xa0The Great Room addition, with fireplace (and wood burning insert), contains the sitting room,xa0the kitchen (withxa0antique, cast iron cook stove), and dining space.xa0 This cathedral ceilinged room offersxa0a magnificent view of the creek through French doors.xa0You canxa0watch deer drinking in the creek, and the heron fishing, as youxa0eat yourxa0meals, or relax by the fireplace.

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xa0 In the second addition there is an entry hallxa0withxa0closet and washer/dryer hookup.xa0 There isxa0also axa0large bathroom,xa0and thexa0master bedroom.xa0 The house has been kept rustic, in keeping with the setting, and in respect for the age of the original cabin.xa0 It is a house meant for comfortable, relaxed, informal living....truly a Country Living Home.

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xa0 A foundation is in place for an addition or porch on the west-creek side of the cabin, as well as projected plans for a deck along the entire rear of the house, facing the south flowing creek.

Adjacent to the house is a story and a half carriage-shed garage with stairs to the second floor, and a concrete-floored shop, which could easily be converted to a guest house. Electric and water are in place.

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xa0 There is also a log ‘cellar’ building (where food was stored before refrigeration) cut into the rock of the bluff on which the house stands. An old tobacco barn on the property has eight stalls forxa0horses, and a long run in shed, or hay and equipment storage area,xa0attached.

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xa0 This is a unique and rare Kentucky historic site. xa0The entire property isxa0 offered at $650,000.00.xa0xa0xa0xa0xa0

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xa0 xa0Additional photographs will be emailed on request.

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