The family that gave the town of Nunnelly its name is protecting a 1-thousand acre parcel through the Land Trust for Tennessee today.
Bill and Walter Nunnelly are the last surviving members of the Nunnelly clan. The brothers have no children. They said they wanted the land to remain intact and thought the best way was through a conservation easement. Walter says the fields are joined by roughly five hundred acres of forest with many red and white oak trees.
“My dad wouldn’t let them cut ’em back in the 1950s, because white oak, you could make a lot of whisky barrels out of ’em. So he wouldn’t let them cut them and they’re just huge trees now.”
The parcel fronts about two miles of the Piney Fork River, an hour west of Nashville.
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