Are you ready to change your way of life to a more relaxed pace? Do you want to live with unspoiled nature all around you? Do you want not to have to lock your doors or your car? Do you want to raise your children in a healthful, safe, and natural environment? This property can be your own private retreat, where you can walk, or ride horses or four-wheelers over miles of picturesque trails (all on your own land). You can enjoy an excellent climate, with early spring and late fall, rare snowfall, clean air and quiet living. Whatever youre looking for in a Country Property you will find on Long Meadows Farm. 375 acres +/-, in South Central Kentucky (Adair County), in an area where Daniel Boone hunted and explored. The 1815 log cabin, original to the site, overlooks a beautiful, wide creek (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. Lexington. Louisville, Nashville, and Knoxville are all within two to three hours drive from Columbia. 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, Lincolns Birthplace, Civil War Battlefield sites, Pleasant Hill Shaker Village, My Old Kentucky Home, and numerous other places of interest are all nearby. 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. 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! 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. Additions to the original log structure include a long, multi-windowed room with creek views on two sides, which could be divided into two bedrooms. The Great Room addition, with fireplace (and wood burning insert), contains the sitting room, the kitchen (with antique, cast iron cook stove), and dining space. This cathedral ceilinged room offers a magnificent view of the creek through French doors. You can watch deer drinking in the creek, and the heron fishing, as you eat your meals, or relax by the fireplace. In the second addition there is an entry hall with closet and washer/dryer hookup. There is also a large bathroom, and the master bedroom. The house has been kept rustic, in keeping with the setting, and in respect for the age of the original cabin. It is a house meant for comfortable, relaxed, informal living....truly a Country Living Home. 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. 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 for hors
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