Welcome to our Web site! This Web site is a work in progress and it will be updated incrementally to add various features, including our products and upcoming events.
Welcome to our Web site! This Web site is a work in progress and it will be updated incrementally to add various features, including our products and upcoming events.
Martin Acres is a seventh generation black‐owned family farm. In the mid‐1800’s, Lourenza Dow Martin, an enslaved person, bought himself out of enslavement and a short time later he paid for the freedom of his wife, Minnie Malvina Reynolds Martin. Lourenza, Minnie, and their 12 children established a home in the Rhodes Chapel Community of Greenville (Muhlenberg County), Kentucky. As the children got older, some of them moved out of state; however, one of the sons, Finis Martin, bought a farm and settled near the Rhodes Chapel Community—also the name of the one‐room Julius Rosenwald school on the property.
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