Four miles east of Athens stands the Slack Farm, established by Samuel and
Sarah Reed Slack in 1871.  The Slacks owned 350 acres and with their nine
children providing much of the labor, they grew corn, wheat, and oats.
Four years after the farm was established, the founders three sons, Samuel,
James, and William, inherited the farm.  The brothers operated the property
for the next 60 years and in 1936, 114 acres of the original family land
passed into the hands of William Clifford Slack, the founder's grandson.
As of 1976, Clifford worked the land an produced corn, tobacco, and
vegetables....... transcribed from "Tennessee Agriculture, A Century Farms
Perspective".
 
 
 

Transcribed by: Harold "Mitch" Mitchell 
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