Federal appraisers who valued Lewis Ross’s home and farm at
No.
352
Lewis
Ross, Cherokee, Agency Reserve, Bradley Cty,
Appraised
2d 7
250
acres low ground good fencing 9.00 $2250.00
160 acres do do do do 1600.00
35 do upland good
fencing 8.00 280.00
Hewed log ldwelling house 40
[by] 27 ft
2 stories high weather
boarded 2 brick chimneys
4 fire places 11[by]16 light windows sealed inside
good floors & doors
painted & all finished in
workmanlike manner $3500.00
yard log well enclosed with
paling 200.00
Frame kitchen 20 20 20 brick
chimney 300.00
Brick store house 40 [by] 26
story and a half high
Cellar good floors level
counter & all finished
& painted in good style
3000.00
Hewed log smoke house 18
[by] 18 150.00
do do office 18[by] 18
150.00
3 Rnd log cabins 18[by]18 150.00
do do cabin 14[by]14
25.00
do do potato house 12[by]12 20.00
1 acre garden well paled in 200.00
Frame spring house 10[by]10 30.00
Hewed log barn 60[by]25
shingle 550.00
Rnd log cabin 16[by]18
(negro) 30.00
Hewed log corn crib 21[by]21 45.00
Rnd log stable 16[by]16 35.00
do do stable
19[by]19 45.00
Hewed log corn crib 18[by]18 45.00
Rnd log corn crib 21[by]8 35.00
Double stable 48[by]18 60.00
Hewed log stable 21[by]16 50.00
3 Rnd log cabins 15[by]18
$50 each 150.00
Hewed log cabin 16[by]14
good floors & doors 150.00
Rnd log stable 16[by]16 35.00
Old frame store house
11[by]22 150.00
Frame gin house 24[by]24
with gearing for gin 50.00
Gin screw and frame 50.00
3 acre lots 15.00 each 45.00
4 hen houses 5.00 20.00
Rnd log cabin 16[by]18 (good
floor & doors) 55.00
153 apple trees at 4.00 each 732.00
300 peach trees at $0.50
each 150.00
15 plum trees at $0.50 each 7.50
25 peach trees at $0.25 each 6.50
150 apple scion at $0.10
each 15.00
10 cherry trees at $0.50
each 5.00
Southern bank ferry at
24965.00
Excerpted from ledger of
Cherokee Property Valuation in Tennessee, US National Archives