JOSEPH ROARK HOMESTEAD Est~1834
This home dates all the way back to the pioneer days of settlers coming into southern Tennessee. Joseph Roark settled in the area in 1835, and became a major landowner of what was then Cherokee native wilderness. The Roark family made this their home for four generations. The family had farmed the land of over 1000 acres, and helped cultivate the south into better agriculture economy. I appreciate the Roark family for keeping the homestead intact, as it is so rare with the growing gentrification in the area. What stories can those walls tell? Hopefully mostly ones of happiness, in a time where it was both brave and ambitious to come into an unknown territory inhabited by Cherokee.
This home dates all the way back to the pioneer days of settlers coming into southern Tennessee. Joseph Roark settled in the area in 1835, and became a major landowner of what was then Cherokee native wilderness. The Roark family made this their home for four generations. The family had farmed the land of over 1000 acres, and helped cultivate the south into better agriculture economy. I appreciate the Roark family for keeping the homestead intact, as it is so rare with the growing gentrification in the area. What stories can those walls tell? Hopefully mostly ones of happiness, in a time where it was both brave and ambitious to come into an unknown territory inhabited by Cherokee. 
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