In the late 1990’s, the Callahan family was faced with a decision that would determine the future of the property. Their choices were: convert the property to a timber farm, which takes twenty years to yield mature timber, continue cattle farming and face the ongoing difficulties created by wildly fluctuating prices for beef, pursue poultry production and the increasingly difficult business environment for small operators, or to sell the property to real estate developers for residential and commercial development. The Callahan family maintained an intense desire to preserve the natural setting of the property and to honor the tradition of the past : one-hundred and fifty years of farming, the history of family ownership, and the dream of the original family members that had been passed on through numerous generations. The land’s natural beauty and varied terrain provided the ideal setting for a tremendous golf course layout, and the natural beauty of the property with “a few tweaks here and there” resulted in the proudest evolution of the farm to date, Callahan Golf Links!
