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The present acreage is 1400.
During the Civil War, according to history. Union officers were billeted at The Shade and it was due to their care that the foxhounds on the place survived. The doors of the house bear bayonet marks, apparently made when enlisted men camped nearby had a bit too much applejack and visited the home.
Green promised his father that he would never sell the slaves. Shortly after his father died, he was offered $100,000 for them, and refused, according to a historical writing.
The Shade was owned by Edward Green and handed down to his daughter Hern*
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