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FARM HISTORY
Our property extends from the top of the Devil's Nose to Old Mill Road. There are approximately 135 acres
on the farm. The land is a combination of rolling, hilly and steep slopes. Approximately 75 acres are cleared
and the rest is in old timber.
Glenmore Farms has been inhabited since 600 to 900 A.D. The rock mound pictured was dated
to that time by an archeologist at the University of Tennessee. They were used by primitive Indians as either ceremonial
or burial mounds. It is of significance that for all these years, peoples have honored them and not destroyed or desecrated
them. There are, at least, 22 of them on the property.
Later the Cherokee inhabited the land and utilized "The Devil's Nose" as a lookout point. The Devil's Nose is the
highest point in the county. Arrowheads are very common in the area and some of the Cherokee almost surely inhabited
the caves near the top of the Devil's Nose.
There are two "stories" of how the Nose got its name. The first is that the mountain looks like the devil's
face if he were lying down. The other version is that two explorers were lost and asked one another where they were
and decided that "only the devil knows". Today, no one knows how or when the Devil's Nose got its name.
Glenmore Farms consisted of three separate farms when we bought them but they were originally a single farm. The first
recorded deed for the farm was in 1894 when Floyd Lipe purchased it from John Stuart and George Smith. This is a picture
of some of the Lipe family on an ox drawn wagon.
Arthur Ferrell and his wife Mary Lipe were the next owners of the farm. Arthur Ferrell split the farm and sold
part to a relative, Ray Burton, for $1075. The other part was sold in 1971. There is a small cemetery on the property
where Floyd Lipe, his wife, Arthur Ferrell and his wife, Mary Lipe Ferrell and, at least, eight of their family are
buried.
We purchased the first section of the farm on January 22, 1980, the second section on May 17, 1988 and the third
section from the daughter of George Robinette immediately after we moved here in 1994. George Robinette was killed on
the property years before in a tractor roll over accident.
Glenmore Farms is the ideal place for us. It is remote and tranquil but only 5 miles from town.
The neighbors are wonderful, caring people and all relatives of the former owners of the property. We could not have
wished for a more beautiful or better place to retire!
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