The Moore Family Farm is located at the southern tip of Hawkins County at the junction of White Horn and VFW roads, northeast of Bulls Gap, Tennessee. The farm is located on both sides of White Horn and VFW roads and contains nearly 350 acres. The current farmhouse is at the
southwest corner of the intersection. Developing from the middle of the nineteenth century
through the twentieth century, the Moore Farm complex is composed of two historic family
farmhouses, one tenant house, and many other agricultural-related resources, which were all built by members of the Moore family. The topography of the farm is rolling hills. This area of East Tennessee still retains its rural and agricultural character as exemplified by the Moore Family Farm.
The integrity of the Moore property as a working farm is extremely intact and clearly represents a historic farm complex found in Tennessee with its two farmhouses, tenant house, twenty contributing outbuildings, five contributing structures, and agricultural landscape. Within the many sheds and barns, the Moores have kept their still operational horse-drawn machinery,
buggies, plows, blacksmith forge, corn sheller, grist mill machinery, and other equipment from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are only three noncontributing resources within the farm district. The following inventory lists and describes the individual components that make up the larger complex.
Most of the buildings and structures are clustered around the three houses on the property—the 1866 l-house, the 1900 front gable and wing, and the 1940s tenant house. Built in 1900, the current farmhouse is surrounded by a landscape of work to its south and southwest and to its east and northeast. Behind the current farmhouse and within its fenced-in yard are the laundry poles, well, smokehouse, and brooder house. Also behind the house and on the south side of VFW
Road are two historic equipment sheds, loading chute, corncrib/grist mill, chicken house,
nonhistoric privy, cattle shed, and a little further down the hill from the other resources is a barn poled for tobacco. Just east of the farmhouse and across VFW Road from the house are the c. 1960s garage, another chicken house, a c.1930 privy, and the old garage, which was built c.1920. Across White Horn Road from the old garage are the cattle barn, concrete-block well house, and a milk cooler/loading shed. Throughout this area are a variety of fencing, farm roads, animal lots, fields, and a pond.
The 1866 farmhouse, also referred to as the l-house or John Rufus Moore House, unoccupied, is south of the current farmhouse and overlooks the hollow and fields between the two houses.
Within the yard of the older farmhouse is a smokehouse, dairy, and well. Across VFW Road are
the 1940s tenant house and its associated privy and barn. On the east side of VFW Road is the
c.1866 all-purpose barn, the noncontributing equipment shed, the large ponds, and the c.1940
tobacco barn. All of these resources are southeast of the current farmhouse. It is in this area that tobacco is currently being planted
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