c.1925 Fixer Upper on 2.6 Acres in Ashland AL Under $45K
September 28, 2020
40921 Highway 77, Ashland, AL, 36251
40921 Highway 77, Ashland, AL, 36251 $44,900 Sold for $43,000
OHU50K NOTES
This appealing fixer upper is set on 2.868 rural acres in Ashland, Alabama (pop.2,037). Ashland is in the middle of the state. During the town’s early years, it saw great growth due to its graphite mine. After WWI the graphite market collapsed and the town turned to the poultry business. Per Wikipedia:
In or about 1921, Reverend Secelar Claxton Ray took one hundred, day-old chicks to the Clay County Fair and put them under an oil burning brooder and called attention to the advantage of using chickens on the farm to supplement the ‘all cotton’ cash crop. This was something new, but it did gradually get the attention of the local farmers. He was now fully in the poultry business, and named it Goodwill Poultry Farm and Hatchery. He bought houses then idle at the local graphite mines in Clay County and hired neighbors in their spare time and built the hatchery and chicken houses and an extra tenant house on the farm, southeast of Ashland, Alabama whose population of close to one thousand had grown considerably from two hundred in 1881.
I don’t think you have to worry, however, about the smell of chicken plants near our featured house. The only buildings of note near the property appear to be a few houses, according to the Google Map overview.
REALTOR COMMENTS
It’s back on the Market! This spacious 2, 868 square foot 6 bedroom, 2 bath fixer-upper home is nestled in the sweet town of Ashland, Alabama. It boasts of 1587 SF on main level and 1281 SF on upper level, 7 wood burning fireplaces, a 2 car garage, formal dining room, large front porch, 2.6 acres, city utilities and walking distance to the town square.
It also has beautiful antique heart pine hardwood floors, soaring high ceilings, and lovely, heavy wrought iron railings on exterior. The house across the street is zoned R2, so this could likely be rezoned for multi-family. This would make a great duplex! The tax office stated that the lot alone is worth $41, 740 due to it’s frontage on State Highway 77; total tax appraisal in current condition is $76, 740.00.
OHU50K does not represent this property.
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