Johnny Cash’s accountant used embezzled money to buy property across the country, and Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, made him sign all of it over. They then sold everything except one ranch in Bon Aqua, Tennessee, according to Smithsonian.
Cash bought the 107-acre ranch in 1972. “For me in ’72, it was love at first sight,” he wrote in his autobiography, Smithsonian reports. He called the farm “the center of my universe,” a place to rest, read and write songs, according to Clarksville Online. An antebellum house stood on the land, and Cash planted the magnolias in the front yard.
Cash also turned a general store on Old Highway 46 into a small venue, Clarksville Online reports. He played free “Saturday Night in Hickman County” shows there, and his daughter Cindy Cash said the family advertised them with only a poster on the door, per Artnet News.
Cash later sold the store and was turned into a recording studio, Clarksville Online said. The farm sat vacant by 2015, according to Wide Open Country, and the store was close to collapsing.
Brian Oxley, a collector of Cash memorabilia, per USA Today, had discovered Cash’s music about three years before he bought the ranch. He found a VHS tape of a 1975 show at the store, held to mark 20 years of Cash making music, Artnet News reported, and he bought the 107-acre ranch in 2015 for $895,000. He and his wife, Sally, also bought and restored the general store along Old Highway 46.
The Oxleys opened the property to the public in August 2016 as the Storytellers Museum and Hideaway Farm. The farm still held Cash’s last car and an arbor he built for his family, Artnet News said, and the museum showed guitars, letters and photographs. “We want to make this more of an experience than a museum,” Oxley said.
Just like Cash’s Bon Aqua farm, another country star’s Tennessee property also became a destination. Loretta Lynn bought a Tennessee house in 1966 and got an entire town with it.
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