The Everett property, known as Engadine Farms, consisting of 3,000 acres, six miles from Brevard, 2 ½ miles from Davidson River, one of the best farms in Transylvania County and home of the south’s leading shorthorn herd, owned by R.W. Everett of Brevard, was sold Tuesday for approximately one half million dollars.
Purchasers of the property are: Jake Wells, R.D. Young, Grady Pritchard and K.G. Morris. The deal was handled through the office of Jackson and Morris, real estate dealers of Hendersonville, and E.P. McCoy of Pisgah Forest.
Plans announced call for the development of the property into a high class restricted residential subdivision and for the creation of an 18-hole golf course. An 80-foot boulevard, 2 ½ miles long, will connect the property with the main state highway running between Brevard and Hendersonville. About $100,000 will be spent on the initial development program. Work is to start within 30 days.
The sale of the property includes all the stock with the exception of the pure-bred cattle, which probably will be sold in early summer at auction to purebred breeders, possibly in Knoxville or Chicago. This herd of shorthorns won a number of first prizes at different stock shows and state fairs throughout middle and eastern United States last summer.
The buildings on the property are worth around $200,000, including a stately mansion, several cottages, two huge stone barns built of gray stone quarried on the property, two silos with 120-ton and 200-ton capacity, and other modern outbuildings.
From the front page of the Brevard News, Feb. 11, 1926
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