The Redland Farm in Greene County has been designated as a Tennessee Century Farm. In 1881, Robert Henry Lauderdale paid $75 for 200 acres on Little Sinking Creek in Greene County. He and his wife, Ellen Hogan, and their five children raised corn, tobacco, wheat and cattle. Their son, H. H. Lauderdale, acquired 44 acres of the farm in 1933. With his wife Della and their son, W. A., tobacco, Angus cattle, hay and corn were some of the crops and livestock raised on the farm. According to the family’s records, “It was a farming operation where it was all you could do to make enough money to pay the taxes.”
Since 1995, the great-great-granddaughter of R. H. and Ella Lauderdale, Barbara, and her husband, Kenneth Belcher, have owned and operated the farm. They work 44.5 acres of the original 200 and have an additional 319 acres on which they raise hay and Angus cattle. Kenneth and Barbara reside on the family land, along with their daughter and her husband, Rebecca and Rick Tipton, and their son, Jordan, who represents the youngest generation to call the farm home.
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