On 400 rolling acres outside Franklin, Tennessee, Gentry’s Farm has been owned by the family for seven generations. From cotton and cows to hogs and hay, diversified efforts have kept the farm flourishing, while summer camps and fall festivities allow the public to share in the memory making, too.
Built between 1805 and 1810, the oldest building on Gentry’s Farm is now the home of Jase Gentry, the great-great-great-grandson of farm founder, Samuel Fielding Glass Jr. For much of its first 150 years, the log cabin was used to house tenant farmers and farm workers. Thankfully, Jase says, “good old logs stick around for a long time,” and in 1984, Jase’s uncle re-chinked and renovated, adding on a couple bedrooms off the back.
Almost 20 years later, Jase graduated high…
