Koivillage.com
Title
Koi Village Pond supplies and Koi
Description
Company History
In 1985 my wife Kathryn and grandson Jason were rambling the backcountry roads in eastern Tennessee looking for interesting sights. Down a one-lane gravel road she spied an old run-down log cabin with a for-sale sign nailed to a tree. I'll never forget the first time I saw it. It was hard to see from the road because of all the kudzu growing on the front of the property. The drive was rutted out so badly I had to leave my car at the road and walk up to the cabin. It is a two story (two room) cabin with a covered porch, and some kind of contraption built onto the back. When you got to the porch there wasn't a step, just a steady incline all the way to the back door. The first thing I said was "I wouldn't want to have anything to do with trying to fix this place up".
In June 1986 we bought the farm. (The cabin and 40 acres of mountainous land.) The Realtor told us the cabin was about 150 years old.
Since childhood I had dreamed of having my own fishing pond, so Kathryn and I started looking around for an appropriate spot. There was one section between two hills that consisted of dead trees, and a couple sinkholes. At first we talked about digging it ourselves with picks and shovels. We still laugh about that foolish idea. Given the fact the whole farm is one huge shale rock we'd have had nothing but a mosquito infested frog pond. After doing some research about ponds, and talking to some local farmers, we called the local county extension agent. He came to the farm and told us the location was all right, and would support a quarter acre pond.
Languages
English
Contact
- WINSTEAD, MARSHALL
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- BULLS GAP TN
- United States 37711
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- 423-235 -7317
