by sahcadmin | Apr 23, 2025 | Farmland Conservation, French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories, Smoky Mountains
Buckskin Branch Farm Like a lovely landscape painting, Buckskin Branch Farm spreads across a scenic valley in the Fines Creek community of Haywood County. The open pasture and fertile fields of the farm sit nestled between Max Patch Road and forested hillsides...
by sahcadmin | Mar 21, 2025 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) has purchased 83 acres for permanent conservation, adjoining Richmond Hill Park overlooking the French Broad River. This purchase ends a 4-1/2 year long legal battle over a permit for an intensive real-estate...
by sahcadmin | Sep 26, 2024 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Beaverdam – 81 Acres Adjoining Rough Creek Watershed “There used to be an old house just below the ridge where my great-grandmother, Bessie Scott Robinson, was born in 1917,” recalls Rusty Cook, former landowner of a 81-acre tract of land that...
by sahcadmin | Sep 5, 2024 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
West Cove and Haywood County Line West Cove sits near the top of the Beaverdam community of Haywood County, a beautiful forested mountain haven near the Haywood/Buncombe County lines. Here, land has passed through the hands of various members of the West family since...
by sahcadmin | Mar 27, 2024 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
In February 2024, Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy purchased 188 acres along a long ridge west of North Turkey Creek, permanently preserving forested mountain slopes, streams, and scenic views in the Sandy Mush community. Four headwater streams originate on...
by sahcadmin | Mar 27, 2024 | French Broad River Valley, Land Protection and Landowner Stories
Sandy Mush Creek Conservation Easement When Simmons Covington Lettre and her brother Archer Covington inherited the mountain land their father once loved and enjoyed, they decided to follow through on his wishes to permanently protect 136 acres of the property with a...
