AMORanch - Arkansas, a 245 acre movie, cattle, horse and hunting ranch with a newly constructed, rustic-styled barn designed to be used as a small sound stage, and a traditional farmhouse with 1800's Ozark homestead-style constructed outbuildings, in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, in historical Kingston, AR

AMORanchArkansas is a 245 working cattle, horse and hunting ranch located in the heart of the Arkansas Ozarks, 6 miles from downtown Kingston. The ranch includes the entire hollow - with the property running from rim to rim from west to east, and one-mile from north to south. The ranch offers expansive views and siting options including forest, meadow, pasture, barns, creeks, 5 ponds (one with a dock) and stone outcroppings/bluffs. The ranch includes 180 acres of hardwood forest and 60 acres of pastures on 5 benches (each with a spring-fed pond). A newly constructed barn in a rustic 1800's backwoods style was designed to be used as a small sound stage. The ranch features a classic homestead at the bottom of the hollow (valley) with a farmhouse surrounded by outbuildings (spring house, greenhouse, vegetable garden, chicken coops and potting shed, clothes lines, firewood shelters, root cellar, smokehouse), that are made from onsite materials evocative of an 1800's homestead. Guinea hens, chickens, cats and dogs range the homestead lawns and surrounding forests. There is a large spring near the house that flows from the base of an old oak tree, feeding a year-round creek that runs the length of the mile-long valley. The simple and traditional white Ozark farmhouse is finished out with multiple chandeliers and furnished with American and European antiques and art. There is a large metal workshop and red wooden building that houses an art studio and equipment bays, adjacent to the equipment and materials yard (tractors and implements, lumber). The horse facilities include a new 40x40 white metal barn with an adjacent 1-acre oil pipe paddock, running parallel to the creek. The cattle facilities include 9 large benches (mesas/levels) that are alternately hay pastures or meadows, fenced with barbed wire and pipe panel gates. There is an 80-foot brown steel pipe round/sorting pen, and a large brown metal hay shed filled with large round hay bales. The hunting infrastructure includes multiple large feed plots and feeders with permanent wooden blinds, and ladder and tree stands. There are 5 attractive spring-fed ponds on the benches that are ringed with trees and teeming with wildlife, one with a wooden dock. There are 160 acres of hardwood forest. Black Angus cattle, Arabian and Thoroughbred horses, and a donkey graze the pastures, with white-tailed deer, turkey, elk, coyote, bear, and mountain lion ranging the forests and meadows. There is zero light pollution at AMORanch, and the night sky is spectacular. In the evening at the pond, there are so many fireflies that it is impossible to tell whether it is the fireflies or shooting stars flying overhead. All four seasons are expressed at AMORanch - Arkansas, with winter snow and ice, frozen waterfalls, and icy fairy forests; spring brings the forests bursting with dogwood, catalpa and redbud and every sort of old fashioned bulb and flower in the domestic homestead gardens; summer brings the fireflies and the magnolia blossoms and the pond teeming with dragonflies and frogs; and the fall colors defy explanation. The lighting at the ranch is magnificent. History: AMORanch - Arkansas, is located in a hollow just below the old county road (CR Madison 3625) that connects historical Kingston to the Boxley Valley, where there were two Civil War battles. Local old-timers tell that multiple skirmishes occurred along the road that runs across the southern rim of the hollow, where the Confederate guerrillas ambushed the wagon trains that traversed between Kingston and the saltpeter mines in Boxley Valley after the Union seized the mines (that had provided the South with gunpowder) from the locals. The Trail of Tears also runs along the Kings River that flows through Kingston. The local old-timers tell many stories of their time in this hollow, that was originally deeded from the US Government (under Teddy Roosevelt) in 1907 to William H. Bowen, as part of the Homestead Act of 1862 signed by Abraham Lincoln. The land has passed through the hands of many of the original settlers in this area, and the names on the property chain of title are a roll call of the old time families who still populate the area. The property, known locally as the Gunn Place, is considered the prize of Bearney Mountain, because of it's prolific springs, and in particular the spring that flows from the base of an ancient white oak tree and shows evidence of being used by homesteaders in this hollow through multiple generations. Overall-clad old-timers have sat on the lawn telling of their early days making moonshine from that spring and of gathering the now near-extinct Chinquapin nuts from the trees that line its creek (the trees still stand). Multiple arrowheads have been found on the property and there is a network of bluffs that encircle the hollow with overhangs and caves. A local chief of the Metis tribe visited the property and said that Native Americans certainly had a settlement near the primary spring. Further detail and photos for the site are located at: https://www.arkansasproduction.com/account/locations/_/2157/