About Perry County, AL

Jonathan Goode is a licensed real estate agent with AlaLandCo that serves Perry County, Alabama. Jonathan and his family live in Marion. Agents with AlaLandCo specialize in helping people buy and sell timberland, farmland, recreational tracts, and investment properties.

Jonathan is a member of the Alabama and national chapters of the Realtors Land Institute, which is an organization of land professionals that seek to be the in their specific profession.

In addition to Perry County, Jonathan can also help you buy or sell property most anywhere in west Alabama. He has served customers and clients in Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Fayette, Hale, Jefferson, Lowndes, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, and Wilcox Counties.

If you are considering buying or selling rural land in Perry County or anywhere in west Alabama, please do not hesitate to contact Jonathan.

Yesterday as I was out showing a 13 acre tract of land for sale that joins the Talladega National Forest in Perry County, Alabama, my customer and I came upon what I perceive to be a "trail tree".

Trail trees were reportedly used by native Americans to mark travel routes, establish local boundaries, or point to food, water, or shelter. They were shaped by lashing or bending a small sapling (usually oak) in the direction they wanted it to face.

There is a small stream roughly 50 yards from where this tree is located. I was elated to find it standing in the woods. They are fairly rare in Perry County, which is in the Black Belt of Alabama. I saw them more as a teenager in the hills of north Alabama near the Tennessee state line.

This tree doesn't add any monetary value to the tract, but it does make you wonder why it is here. If it isn't old enough to have been shaped by native Americans, could it have been used by local troops in the Civil War to mark a hideout or some other cache of supplies? Maybe some young boys heard stories from their grandfather about bending trees to make signposts and they experimented on this one. Whatever the case, it is a neat find and a part of history most people never see anymore.

Jonathan Goode, land agent with AlaLandCo, has some great listings of land for sale in Perry County, Alabama. If you are looking for a hunting tract or getaway property, please see some of my great listings.

Perry County is home to over 35,000 acres of the Talladega National Forest. Owning land that joins the Forest is highly desirable, because Good Forests make Good Neighbors.

Perry County is in the heart of Alabama's historic Black Belt region, which is known for its outstanding whitetail deer and fertile black soils.

Here are a few of my current listings in Perry County:

13.3 acre Homesite and Hunting

78 acres of great hunting land that joins the Talladega National Forest

217 acres that joins the National Forest- can be divided into a 150 acre, 53 acre, and 13 acre tract

28 acre parcel at a reduced price!

These are just a few of the many great properties we have for sale in some of the best hunting land in Alabama. For more information please visit my website or contact me. If you are considering selling your land in Perry County, I will be happy to provide you with some comparable sales information of what has recently sold and would love to help you sell your rural property. I am the only real estate agent in Perry County, Alabama that focuses my business completely on land. It would be my pleasure to serve you too.

Come celebrate SummerFest on July 3, 2010 at the Perry County Courthouse Square in Marion, Alabama.

The events will kick off at 9:00 am and will continue until 5:00 pm. Local vendors will offer some great southern fare and will also be selling jewelry, crafts, antiques, and clothing.

Inflatables and horse rides will keep the children entertained throughout the day.

Admission is free to attend and vendor booths may be purchased for $35. The proceeds provide scholarships, and help fund local nursing home projects.

Please plan to come and visit SummerFest taking place Saturday, July 3 in Marion, Alabama. For more information please call 334-683-9922 or 334-683-6492.

If you spend the day in Marion and decide you would like to purchase some land in the area, please feel free to contact me. I am Perry County's only real estate agent that focuses completely on land sales. I specialize in selling hunting land, farmland, timberland investments, and recreational tracts in west Alabama.

I was walking the boundaries of a 78 acre tract of land I have for sale in Perry County, Alabama and found this amazing witness tree.

A few days ago, my friend Robert King, an agent with AlaLandCo, posted an article that talked about witness trees and arborglyphs in Bankhead National Forest. It is striking that I read that article and found this tree in the same week.

The 78 acre hunting tract joins the Talladega National Forest on several sides. As I was walking the east boundary of the property, I came across this large tree, which I take for a tulip poplar (I am not a forester). The tree was so large that I had to reach around it twice just to measure its girth.

A witness tree is one that has been marked in some way to indicate the location of a property boundary, some significant land mark, or cultural event. A tree that bears drawings from Native Americans or others is called an arborglyph. In the picture above you will notice that someone made marks in the tree with an axe or other sharp instrument. The tree bears many markings. Some other trees that have been culturally modified are called "trail trees". These trees have a sharp curve in them, that usually point in a specific direction or indicate that water or shelter is close by.

Witness trees are becoming increasingly rare, particularly in West Alabama. Alabama has an active logging industry, and the sheer age of these trees means that we are losing more and more of these historical artifacts as time passes.

I suppose it is inevitable that many of these trees will be lost to disease, storms, logging, or old age, but everyone who is interested should have the opportunity to see how forest boundaries were marked before the advent of modern survey equipment, barbed wire, and the gps.

This particular witness tree is located about 500' off the north side of Perry County Road 23, along the Talladega National Forest boundary. If you would like more information about the location of this tree or land for sale bordering the Talladega National Forest, please contact me.

I strongly believe that owning land that joins a National Forest or management area is a great investment. They are some of the best neighbors you can have. Please call me for all of your rural Alabama land needs.