Huge Shelby County Property Featured In National Publication

SHELBY COUNTY, AL - One of the premier property publications in the country has featured a Shelby County property in its listings as "Alabama's leading land listing." The 3,928-acre property in north Shelby County is listed at $38 million.

A report by the Birmingham Business Journal said The Land Report, a magazine focused on land ownership in the U.S., featured Sherwood Mountains in its most recent issue, described the landscape as, "The tallest mountain in Shelby County. Thousand-foot tall sandstone ridgelines. Awe-inspiring vistas for 20 miles and more clear to Birmingham."

According to the listing, the property is where seven separate mountains converge and the nearly 4,000 acres appear much as it did in the 1800s. Sherwood Mountains includes a 300-acre cove surrounded by mountains long known as "The Penitentiary," and were once deemed "Too wild and unsettled for even a cursory inspection," in an 1895 U.S. Geological Survey. (For more real estate stories and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Patch morning newsletter.)

The article says, "Except for dirt roads and a lake there is little evidence of human activity but only 30 minutes to downtown Birmingham."

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