1490 Macedonia Road - Bear Creek Farm

Harry Norman, REALTORS® presents

BEAR CREEK FARM 1940 Macedonia Road | Mansfield, GA 30055 Offered at $999,000

Bear C re e k Farm c1900’s

MAIN HOUSE: • This Historic charming home c1900’s home consists of six log cabins put together to form one of the most endearing properties around.

• One of the log cabins was an 1800’s Kentucky school house that was moved to the property in the 1970’s.

• Double Front Porches with rocking chairs welcome you to this delightful home • Beautiful Hunt Room Entrance • The Great Room features a stacked fieldstone fireplace made with stones found on the property.

• Hardwood floors throughout the home milled from wood on the property.

• Chef ’s Kitchen with top of the line stainless steel appliances and double ovens • Large Breakfast area with wood burning stove • Breakfast Bar in Kitchen was hand carved from a Poplar tree on the property • Huge Master Bedroom features sitting area and Sleeping Porch.

• His and Her Master Bath with huge walk-in closet.

• Three additional large Bedrooms plus a sleeping loft • Three additional gracious size bathrooms.

• Terrace level features Large Hunt Room, Bedroom, Full Bath, Office, and Storage Area • Covered Porch with Fireplace, sitting area and bar overlooks the stocked lake and hot tub.

• Additional Screened in Dining area seats 24.

• 25 foot ceiling in the Great Room, 15 foot ceilings throughout the home.

• 4300 sq ft.

Barns-Guest House-Hunting: • Covered bridge with power gate and lighting • Main Barn has approx. 2,000 sq feet , 2 stories with loft, concrete floor, water, power, heating and air conditioning.

• Equipment Barn approx. 1,200 sq feet with water and power • Small “guest cabin” by creek with no power • Two Stall Barn with water and power and two fenced paddocks.

• East Bear Creek runs through the middle of the property.

• There are several bridges built across the creek for easy access to hunting locations that can hold a car, truck or tractor • Five Ponds, three have major fish, one is a duck pond • Dove field with power line • Three main food plots for deer hunting • Eight double ladder stands • One large “Cadillac” blind that is zero entry with power • Total acreage approx. 86 acres • The property buffers 2,000 acres of land owned by Newton County for future reservoir

History of Bear Creek Farm Covington businessman Jerry Gafford purchased the land for Bear Creek Farm in 1975. Jerry subsequently saw an ad in the Farm and Garden Bulletin advertising an antique log cabin for sale.

Jerry purchased the cabin and several other buildings and had them delivered to the site. A seven foot by twenty-eight foot corn crib was used to build the main room. The chimney and fireplace were created from field rock found on the property. The wide pine plank floors in the main room were purchased from a man in Milver. The dark pine border came from an old house in Covington.

The kitchen and bathroom were constructed from a small cabin purchased from the same seller. The back bedroom was an old school cabin purchased from a teacher in Dalton. The door opening is slightly charred as that was originally a fireplace. Soon after the cabin was completed a small deck was added in the back, and the screened porch was added on the side. These rooms made up the original cabin which was used as a weekend retreat.

After Jerry retired in the mid-nineties he decided to sell his house in Covington and move to the farm. The next expansion involved purchasing an additional cabin from the teacher in Dalton and constructing the middle bedroom and the room next to the kitchen. Much of the wood in this portion of the house was cut from the property when the ponds were built. A saw mill was set up in the pole barn for this purpose. The wooden bar in the kitchen was hand cut and sanded from a poplar tree from the property.

The final expansion undertaken by Jerry involved the purchase of a pine cabin from a man in Zebulon. A basement was dug and the master bedroom was constructed from the pine cabin on top of the basement. The master bathroom was added using logs cut from the property. Most of the remaining wood for the renovation came from an old house at the end of Poplar Hill Road and from trees on the property. The covered bridge, the red barn (modeled after the Moltz Barn in Jackson Hole, Wyoming), and the pole barn were added at this time.

A German couple purchased the property in 2004 when Jerry decided to move to the beach. This couple added the horse stables and paddocks. In addition the dining table and chairs, the bed in the bedroom off the kitchen, the table in the office, and the “picnic� table in the breakfast room were built by the German couple using Amish construction techniques. After five years this couple decided to move to Atlanta for work related reasons.

The current owners purchased the farm in 2009 following the flood of their Atlanta house. They continued the tradition of property expansion by adding the covered back porch and fireplace, the additional master bath, the sleeping porch off the master bedroom, the art studio and the guest cabin.

They also finished the basement which added and additional bedroom, bathroom, hunt room and office. The current owners have converted the property from a horse farm to a hunting venue. A small but prolific dove field has been planted on the high point of the property, and three food plots are cultivated for deer and turkey each year. The owners have followed a QDMA style feeding regiment as well by providing nearly continuous availability of thirty-five percent protein food plus minerals. The owners have harvested many deer, turkey, dove, racoons, foxes, crows and squirrels from the property.

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