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Historic Turner-Pharr House on the Market…Clarksville, MO Circa 1867

Historic Turner-Pharr House on the Market…Clarksville, MO Circa 1867

Now is your chance to not only buy a charming country retreat….though a project to keep your fidgeting hands busy.  Our farm is near Clarksville and we go into the town often.  It is small and charming with the Mississippi River in your front yard….sometimes literally.  I think this house is up high enough to avoid flooding, though I could be wrong.  Clarksville is a little over an hour north of St. Louis and is filled with charming shops. There is also the delightful Overbrook Farm restaurant complex close by….so when you are redoing your kitchen….you can treat yourself to their fine dining!  At a purchase price of $50,000….think of what you can do to make this a showplace!

Listed by Dan Pieper, Keller Williams Realty West, 636-485-5242

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2010 Land Sales- Pike County, Missouri

I recently reviewed the land sales in 2010 that are part of the MLS database.  This excludes sales that were private.  The pickings were sort of slim.  Only four farms sold that were over $300,000.  These were tracks without houses on them. The average price per acre was $3,540.  Here is the rundown:

948 Leo Hardy Rd, Eolia 100 acres  Sale Price: $354,499

Pike 277, Bowling Green 144 acres  Sale Price: $325,515

123 Pritchett, Frankford  156 acres  Sale Price: $473,783

Pike 222, Eolia  83 acres  Sale Price: $444,857

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Farm Junk Images

I wrote this post on my www.stlouisstyleblog a couple years ago:

"When you have a working farm, you just never end up throwing anything away. You stick it somewhere since you may need it someday. Well we have had our farm over 50 years and have assembled a rich collection of junk. Junk slowly becomes art and then you can't throw it away."

(Update: since taking these pic a couple years ago….we did finally clean out our barns.  They are not as interesting, though we have room now and good $ in the bank from selling scrap iron!)

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Interiors Pictures- Griffith-McCune Home

Today I am featuring some of the interior pictures of the historic Griffith- McCune home located on Rockford Farms. The back frame section of the house was gently renovated about 15 years ago.  The exterior is pretty much the same.  The interior was pretty bad.  At one point there was a fire in the back section and it was a storage room for decades. There was a central chimney that was crumbling and had to be taken down. An interesting note is that when the old chimney was being torn down, the workers found a intact prehistoric spearhead under the foundation. Check out this link to see a pic. Some of the local Mennonites crafted the cedar timbers to make the beams in the back section. Originally there was a flat ceiling. I thought it would be nice to open up the space.

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Griffith- McCune House, Rockford Farms

The house that I am the "custodian" of on our farm with my brothers is the Griffith-McCune house that dates to the 1850's. The house was originally a modest frame home that received a nice, brick facade on the front shortly after the frame section was built.  The home is built with bricks hand forged near the property. This home is a labor of love and is always a little in disrepair.  It seems like paint just starts pealing the moment you put it on and something is always rotting. On Easter evening this year, the house was hit by a horrible hail storm. Golf ball-sized hail blasted the house from the West.  Every window on the Western side of the house was blown out. It took until August to get the windows replaced and now the house looks great! We also have a new roof, guttering and paint! The hail storm was a little insurance blessing, though it was a depressing Spring and Summer seeing the house is a sad state. More pics on this house later.

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Here are some pictures of the back frame section.

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This is the smoke house that sits near the home.

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Rockford School, Pike County, MO

Our family has owned Rockford Farms since the 1950's.  The name Rockford comes from the Ramsay Creek that runs along our property.  The creek has a slab rock bottom and a "ford" is a place that you cross the creek…viola!  Rockford.  There is a school house from the 1850's on our property that my father's sister transformed into a house back in the 1950s. This was called the Rockford School.  This was formally called Griffith School where the children of James Griffith were taught.

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A Link to More on Pike County Living!

Pike County Living is sort of a spin-off of my blog: www.stlouisstyleblog.com.  Over the years I have featured Pike County homes, farms, restaurants and more on this blog.  The other day I thought to myself Pike County deserves it's own blog!  I will still talk about Pike County on St. Louis Style, though even more about this lovely area will be featured here.

Check out this LINK for some of the archives about Pike County on St. Louis Style. Make sure you use the arrows on the very bottom to see all of the posts..there are tons!.

Below is a lovely home in Louisiana, MO.

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Aberdeen Farm

Our family has owned farms in the Pike County area for several decades. Before WWII my grandfather owned Aberdeen which is at the corner of D and WW.  This lovely property was originally one of the Meriwether plantations. The primary crop was tobacco in the 1800's. My grandfather sold the property to Gov. Lloyd Stark. Governor Stark was the one who put the pillared colonnade on the front of the house.  The other day I came across some old pictures of Aberdeen and will share them with you in the future.

Update: This blog is going to force me to do more research on Pike County.  I just stumbled across this information:

Place name: Aberdeen
Description: A post office in Prairieville Township, established in 1891 and discontinued in 1904. H.V.P. Block, formerly from Virginia, owned a farm here consisting of about 13,000 acres. He was of Scotch descent and named the farm Aberdeen. The post office which was established at a toll gate on this land took its name from the farm. (Mrs. T.N. Bragg; J.D. Hostetter)
Source: Leech, Esther. "Place Names Of Six East Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1933.


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Clarksville Farm for Sale

"CLARKSVILLE KNOBS FABULOUS VIEWS!!…….745 +/- acres of rolling meadows, panoramic vista, tillable cropland, pasture, ponds, streams and timber with one Historic Home, one recently remodeled 3BR/2BA traditional home and several barns. Convenient access off State Highway W plus adjacent well maintained County Roads. TRACT 1: 241.33 +/- acres just outside of Historic Clarksville has approximately 197 acres cropland with balance pasture and timber. TRACTS 2&3: 504 +/- acres has approximately 305 acres cropland with balance in pasture & timber. An EXCEPTIONAL PROPERTY suitable as income producing crops, horses, livestock, recreational, sportsman paradise with lake sites and/or your future COUNTRY ESTATE!! Acreage could be divisible."  $2,880,000

Listed by Len Scherder, Century 21, The Wells Group 573-747-5001 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            573-747-5001     

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