Total Acres: 4,000

Open Acres: 192 Acres

Price: $60,000,000 ($15,000/ac)

Location: Triple Creek Ranch is a Legendary Property located 3.4 miles west of the small community of Leipers Fork in Williamson County, Tennessee. Leipers Fork is the home to many of the legends and artist in Country Music and the Music Business in Nashville. People travel from all over the country to visit this quaint town for its natural beauty, hometown atmosphere and the chance to meet some of the neighboring stars. The property is only 20 miles southwest of Nashville  20 minutes from the historic town of Franklin, the epicenter of over four billion dollars of current development projects in Williamson County.

Road Frontage: The property has over one mile of frontage on the  77 mile I-840 beltway and located off the Pinewood Exit. The beltway was proposed as a solution for regional traffic needs so that the existing Nashville freeways could better support local traffic. I-840 forms a complete bypass of the Nashville metropolitan area and has opened up the land up for commercial and residential development. The property also has a combined frontage of over three miles on Pewitt Road, Boy Scout Road, Taylor Cemetery Road, Hargrove Road and Pinewood Road.

Trails & Streams: There are over 40 miles of hiking trails, horse back riding trails and year round interior roads that provide access to all portions of the property. The 192 acres of open land is used for pasture and food plots. There are 18 plus miles of perineal creeks and streams on the ranch and the balance of the land is primarily in old growth forest. The topography can best be described generally as ridge top to ridge top with fertile valleys and hollows between. The current owner spent twenty years in assembling what is now the largest contiguous tract in Williamson County. It is one of the most unique and beautiful properties in the Southeast.  

Barn/House: The main entrance to the farm is located at the 5600 Boy Scout Road. The 4500-foot paved private drive has an electric gate at the entrance and is fenced with guardrails lining the side of the drive as it descends into the valley to the barn/house.

The interior of the barn/House contains a total of 4,564 square feet of finished space. The first floor contains 2,974 feet and is uniquely designed with an Old West motif in mind. It contains an authentic western bar, country store, full country kitchen, office, full bath and even the first circa 1800 jail used in Williamson County, a handy addition for those unruly guest or bunk room for the kids. 

The quality of the woodwork and attention to detail is stunning. The floors are oak, the walls panelled with upholstery accents, tiles of tin cover the ceiling and a huge stone fireplace serves as the focal point of the room.  A stage was built for live performances, complete with mic plugins, adjustable lighting, built in speakers and a studio quality sound board to manage and mix the sound. The entrance from the almost one acre of covered space attached to the barn/house, looks likes something out of the Old West. The 35,000 square foot storage area contains a first class riding arena and access to the twelve horse stables. 

The second floor contains 1,770 square feet of living space, suitable for year round living with several bathrooms and bedrooms. 

Improvements: There is is a hand hewn log cabin used as a guest cottage in addition to two other cabins about a mile deep into the Property from the end of Taylor Cemetery Road that songwriters have used for years. A managers house is located off Taylor Cemetery Road and an airplane hangar and a concrete floor machine shop near the barn/house. 

The property has a nice horse barn and hay barn off Taylor Cemetery Road that is fenced and cross fenced with recently painted wood fencing. There are several other pole barns and equipment sheds scattered through the 4,000 acres. 

Timber:  The timber on the property is excellent and consist primarily of mature hardwood trees. A very small amount of the timber has been harvested in the last twenty five years with a large percentage of the timber being 40 plus years old. A cruise on 1675 acres of the timberland  is available upon request.

Conservation Easement: There are 32 acres, known as the Brown Tract, under a Conservation Easement managed by the Tennessee Nature Conservancy. It is restricted from development with the exception of the right to build one house. There is also an easement on an adjoining 124 acres restricting it from all development which is also managed by Tennessee Nature Conservancy.

Contact to View the Property:

John H. Simmons

Simmons Land Company

Memphis, TN

901 828-5500 

Howard Bickerstaff

Bick Real Estate Co

Chattanooga, TN

423) 605-6500

220 acre located on Raleigh LaGrange Road west of Hwy 194 at Blain Road. Approximately 150 acres in cultivation, 60 acres in mature hardwood and 20 acres of pasture where the house and barn are located overlooking the property. The house was built in the early 1900's and  has narrow heart pine floors and pine paneling on the walls and ceilings. The windows are original and the kitchen has a  very old gas stove. Needs work, but rentable now. The farmland is level and excellent ground. This is one of the best farms in Fayette County and well located between Hwy 196 and Hwy 194 in Rossville, TN. Call me to view the farm.

John Simmons 901 828-5500

Total Acres: 3,805, subject to survey

Location: Centerville, TN, 47 miles Southwest of Nashville.

Price: $4,185,500 ($1,100/ac) with the owners reserving the right to select cut the timber 16 inches and up or $6,278,250 ($1650/ac) with all timber included.

Note: The owners would consider dividing the property into two or three parcels.. The hunting is superb and the land priced to sell

John Simmons 901 828-5500

583 acre Mann Farm
Fayette County, Tennessee

Location: Approximately 4.5 miles north off Rossville, TN with approximately 2,500 feet of frontage on he east side of Hwy. 194. The farm also fronts on the western side of Murrell Road for approximately 3,500 feet.

Price: $6,000/acre or $3,532,500
 (Divisions and serious offers considered)  

   
Farmland: 583 acres
FSA Cropland: 323.1 acres
Timber: 260 acres
Farm Number: 4992
Tract Numbers: 750, 6681 and 6718.

Farm Lease: 2018-2021 (Four Years, Subject to Sell) $27,000 Annually,

Tenant: Glenn Hopkins

Hunting Lease:2018-2022 (5 years subject to Sell), $7,500/ac Annually

Cotton Base: 84.7 acres
Corn Base: 33.3 acres .
Grain Sorghum Base: 20.3 acres
Soybean Base: 46.6 acres
RENT: Cash rent of $21,000 ($25/ac for the 150 acres in pasture and $100/ac for the 173 acres in row crop).

Contact John Simmons at Simmons Land Company ​901-828-5500. ​

Contact John Simmons at Simmons Land Company 901-828-5500.

For a video tour of the property click here.  For a drone view https://youtu.be/lrm8i0HBjLE. This property is located in Western North Carolina in Sapphire Valley, fifteen minutes from downtown Cashiers. The tract is bordered by the Nantahala National Forest on the entire west side. The Thompson River runs through the middle of the property. The property is located off Upper Whitewater Road and by an access road through Camp Buc. The access is deeded and recorded. It is rare to find a property with river frontage and one adjoining the Nantahala National Forest. There are hundreds of thousands of acres in this immediate area of National Forest. If you love the outdoors and want a place to hunt, fish, or just get away for a while, I don't think you will find a prettier place.

If you have any interest in seeing the property, call me at anytime: John Simmons, Owner/Agent (901) 828-5500

James Means, Architect

James Collier Means (1904–79), known simply as Jimmy, was a Georgia architect of the “old school”; he was a steadfast classicist when the suburban ranch house, with a streamlined Ford in the carport, had become an ideal for a postwar futuristic world. Commenting on a modern new church building with an oddly angled metallic steeple, Means remarked characteristically to a client, “That church is unnecessarily ugly.” This droll and definitive way of speaking endeared him to his clients, many of whom became his close friends, finding him and his work irresistible. His work was his life.

Means and his clients loved the pre-expressway past. They took great pains, and pleasure, too, in breathing new life into the symmetrical beauties of eighteenth-century American and European styles, usually understated vernacular versions, and they preferred the comfortable “old shoes” of seasoned building materials, handcrafts, antique furnishings, and parterre gardens. Despite a changing society (or possibly because of it), this continuity seemed necessary and appropriate for life in modern America, especially in the South where Means was born and learned architecture as his profession.

He learned in the old-fashioned way, on the job, rather than in a college of architecture. Means was only a young teenager when he began to work part time as an office boy in 1917 with a premier Atlanta architectural firm, Hentz, Reid & Adler. By age fifteen he was drafting such things as roof plans and was on his way to becoming a card-carrying member of the Georgia school of classicists. His credentials were based on his unique talents, experience, and knowledge rather than on registration with a state agency, and he was not a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Means was one of the last of the master builders, the original meaning of architect. Not just capable of using the T-square, drafting paper, and pencil, he had also mastered the traditional tools of the carpenter-architect. He grounded his practice in the old ways of designing and building based in the human scale of the proportional systems of the classical orders and in enduring materials such as bricks, stone, and heart pine. He was a professional because he was a perfectionist, and people were drawn to him and his work for that reason, allowing him to earn a modest living as an architect for his entire adult life. Everyone knew Jimmy Means was not in the profession for the money, but for the art.

The houses that Means designed and built from the early 1950s, when he returned to Atlanta from Albany and Jones & Means to practice alone, without draftsmen or secretary, are the culmination of more than seventy years of Georgia classicism growing out of Hentz, Reid & Adler and Hentz, Adler & Shutze. Means, his clients, contractors, masons, millworkers, and carpenters greatly enriched the tradition when few could still do it or afford it, or care.

 John Simmons

Owner/Agent

$4,935,000 ($3,500 per acre) FIRM. 

Benton County Farm

1410.82 acres

Price: $3,500/acre Firm

Total FSA Acres: 1429.34 (Includes 19+ acres and house that is out)
FSA Cultivatable Acres: 948.02

Location: Benton County, MS on the north side of Highway 72 northwest of the intersection of Highway 72 and Hwy 5. The farm also fronts on Harris Chapel Road, which is a county black top road, Mosquito Road, a county gravel road and Trimble Road, which is paved road. 

Income & Improvements

Improvements: There is a house and one cabin on the property and a several grain bins. The house is rented for $600/month ($7,200 annually) and the cabin is used by the hunters that lease the hunting rights.

Hunting Lease: The land is leased for hunting until August 2015 for $12,000. It could possible be terminated at closing. The hunters have the use of the hunting cabin on the Property. The farm has a beaver kill area that is flooded (40 acres+) on the north end and has excellent duck hunting. There are several ponds and lakes on the property.

Farm Rent: McNabb Farms has been farming the land for several years. The farm rent is being renegotiated now. The past lease was for $85 per cultivated acre or $80,581. I would estimate the farm could be rented for $125-$150 cash per cultivated acre.

Timber:  This farm has an excellent stand of hardwood timber. I have a standing offer from a timber buyer who will pay $400,000 for the timber deed at closing and cut the timber on halves. He estimates the owner would receive a total of $500,000 to $800,000 for his share of the timber value.

General
This is one the best farms in Benton County. The fields are large and level. It is unusual for a farm of this size to have such a high percentage of tillable acres and valuable timber for most of the balance. It has great road frontage and adjoins the Wolf River. There is also a paved landing strip in the large filed in the northwest corner of the property.

Contact John Simmons at Simmons Land Company 901-828-5500.

Located just North of Rossville, TN on the West side of Hwy 194.

FSA 341 acres of cropland and the balance of 787 acres primarily in mature hardwood timber. Almost three miles of frontage on the Wolf River and part of a vast woodland corridor on the Wolf River. Incredible deer, duck and turkey hunting. Well located being only ten minutes from the intersection I-385 and Hwy 57. Fronts on Highway 194 and Johnson Road. Located in the dead center of the growth areas of Fayette County, TN and Marshall County, MS. A unique opportunity to own a large tract 30 minutes east of Memphis which produces good income from the farmland lease and timber harvest potential. 

968 acres located on Nosegay Road in Dickson County, Tennessee. The land is approximately 30 minutes west of Nashville, TN and has frontage on Jones Creek. There are approximately 245 acres on the west side of Nosegay Road and the balance on the other side of the road.

The timber on the property is incredible with the 70% being White Oak, 10% Red Oak, and the remaining 20% being mixed species. The property was just cruised and there are over 6,120,000 BF with a current market value of $2,954,430. Please call for the price. John Simmons, 901 828-5500

Contact John Simmons at Simmons Land Company ​901-828-5500. ​