Century Farms in Williamson County
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Anthony Luster, feeding cattle on his family farm, is the great, great, grandson of founder, Grant Luster, Sr., who was born a slave in 1864.
- Courtesy of Caneta Hankins
Virginia Pearre Egbert and her husband, Paul, continue the tradition of farming on her family’s land in Williamson County. The barn in the background was built by Virginia’s grandfather, her father, and her uncles.
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Glenn Acres Farm is the oldest Century Farm in Williamson County and was established around 1785. Descendants continue to gather in the farmhouse which includes the original log cabin.
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Charles Gentry, his son Wayne and his niece Lynn McAlister, manage the family farm founded in 1887 on Spanntown Road near Triune and Nolensville.
- Courtesy of Caneta Hankins
Poppy’s Barn, pictured here, is one of several outbuildings that support the work on the Sullivan-Givens Farm in Fairview
- Stacey Givens
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Williamson County has 48 Century Farms, and Caneta Skelley Hankins has met the farmers behin…