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Earnest Farms Historic District

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The Earnest Farms Historic District is a historic district of four farms and their associated buildings near the community of Chuckey in Greene County, Tennessee, developed from 1782 to 1951 across roughly 900 acres by the pioneer Henry Earnest and his descendants. The district's four farms, Elmwood Farm, Broyles Farm, Crum Farm and Jim Earnest Farm, together contain forty-three contributing structures and sites in Federal, Italianate and I-house styles, including the Earnest Fort House, one of the oldest houses in Tennessee, and the Ebenezer Methodist Church, home to the state's oldest Methodist congregation; Elmwood Farm was designated a Tennessee Century Farm in 2002 for having been cultivated continuously since 1777. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 2002. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Farm 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Greene County, United States 3
Completed Year
1782 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Farm 2
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Farm, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Earnest Farms Historic District (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnest_Farms_Historic_District, lead definition
    The Earnest Farms Historic District is a historic district consisting of four historic farms and associated structures near the community of Chuckey in Greene County, Tennessee, United States.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Earnest Farms Historic District is a historic district of four farms and their associated buildings near the community of Chuckey in Greene County, Tennessee, developed from 1782 to 1951 across roughly 900 acres by the pioneer Henry Earnest and his descendants. The district's four farms, Elmwood Farm, Broyles Farm, Crum Farm and Jim Earnest Farm, together contain forty-three contributing structures and sites in Federal, Italianate and I-house styles, including the Earnest Fort House, one of the oldest houses in Tennessee, and the Ebenezer Methodist Church, home to the state's oldest Methodist congregation; Elmwood Farm was designated a Tennessee Century Farm in 2002 for having been cultivated continuously since 1777. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 2002.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1782)
    completion_date/completed = 1782-1951
  • In Style: Federal Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Federal, Bungalow, Italianate influence, I-house
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2. Earnest Farms Historic District (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Farm)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Farm)
Wikidata item Q5326928, instance of (P31): farm
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3. Earnest Farms Historic District (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Greene County, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Greene County, United States
Wikidata item Q5326928, property P131/P17 (location): Greene County, United States
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