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THE STORY
Our farm was originally part of a Revolutionary War land grant, issued to John Colants as Land Warrant 1036. Mr. Colants assigned at least 40 acres of this grant to William Pryor, who took possession on December 1, 1808. The Pryors settled in the hollow where the Homeplace now stands and worked their land holdings for the next 10 years; some nearby placenames, PryorCreek and Pryor Bay, for instance, were obviously named for William.
Farmers were fortunate to be located near the major mode of transportation of the
 day: the river. They lived "between the rivers" -- that is, between the
Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers -- but this area is known as the Four Rivers
region, because it's also near the Ohio and Mississippi. Living at such a major transportation crossroads had a significant impact on farm life. News and goods usually reached farms within a few weeks and sending farm-raised produce and livestock to market was convenient.
Our farm contains 16 log structures, 14 of them original, which were relocated from within 10 miles of Pryor Hollow.
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