Sam Hutsell house. Built 1857. Bob Sliger residence before 2021 auction. 112 acres on Sewee Creek and brick home plus historic outbuildings.

This was my grandmother’s aunt and uncle’s house. I’m trying to figure out who owns it now.

Hello Rachel,
When your family lived here, what type of farming did they do?

Hello. It was cattle, I believe the name was Big Sewee Angus Farm. Of course I haven’t been there in 30 years and my grandmother’s cousins have since passed away. I drove by it not too long ago after it was auctioned. I’d love to get back there to see it up close.

My grandfather bought cattle from Mr. Sliger way back, maybe 50 years ago. This 112 acre property was surveyed into numerous small acreage tracts and sold at auction, however, someone (probably old and obviously wealthy) bought the whole thing. I bid on the house tract as I love American history (I won the modern history award at my high school of 2,000 students in 2007, used to do civil war reenacting, living history demonstrations/volunteering). This is one of the last few antebellum period upland south brick dwelling houses that really hasn’t been updated (aka ruined). I was going to live in it like it would’ve been in 1857. Roughing it. Lantern, outhouse, etc. Anyway, some old wealthy person bought it. They don’t even live there. They put up a halfway ritsy gate and lots of those hideous “smile, you’re on camera” signs. Time waits for no one. I’m glad I got to witness it before the poor taste owner(s) got it.

I can still see the place as it was around 30 years ago when we visited my grandmother’s cousin. I’d give anything to have it myself!! I’ve been told there was an old cabin across the “new” highway where her Uncle would stay sometime. And the Hutsell truss bridge is just back of the house somewhere over Sewee creek, of course that was closed down in the 80s I believe. I noticed the gate at the end of the driveway, but never got out.

Incumbent owner paid over $1.3M. And that was several years ago…. There’s a family cemetery across highway 68 and the daughter of Mr. Sliger apparently kept a good chunk of old family land on the south side of highway 68. Go to the county courthouse and ask the register of deeds for the public info on it and maybe write the owner a letter about potentially seeing it again. That’s what I’d do. Good luck.

Yes she did, she was precious and worked the land until she absolutely couldn’t any longer. Thank you for the advice, I am working on tracking them down.

I was talking to my mom and realized you were referring to Bob Sliger’s daughter. Bob had a sister who lived there and worked the land until her older years, she never married or moved away. Do you or your dad (since he bought cattle from Mr Sliger) have any other memories or stories of the place? Also, I noticed there was a trailer up closer to the highway that looked like it was actively lived in. Do you know if there is someone living there currently?