Farm History

         Burns Farm has been a working farm prior to the U.S. Civil War. It has been a working farm since the early 1800's according to the descendants that give us the history of the farm. The Union Soldiers raided the farm for provisions during the Civil War in the 1860's. A sunken trace can still be seen on the farm where the road once ran through the farm in the 1800's and early 1900's. The farm once supported a living community that included a schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, a two-story log house, and numerous small houses and a syrup mill. There is a cemetery that dates back to the 1800's. It was a sheep farm in the early 1800's. It had 2 hand dug wells and a 2 seat out house built in the 1930's by the CCC Boys which is still standing. The farm in the 1800's and early 1900's was self-sustaining. Corn and other products for the animals and human consumption were grown on the farm. Hogs were raised to be butchered in the winter for food. The land was used as a dairy farm until around 1985.

     Gerald and Melba Burns bought the farm in 2005 and started raising produce on it. Even though it is a 120-acre farm, only about forty acres is actually used for farming. Products grown on the farm in 2025 are watermelons, cantaloupes, tomatoes, and sugarcane. In the fall of 2013, a sugarcane mill was installed on the farm to make homemade sugarcane syrup for the market.