Fairview Farms: Greenspace and Golden Hills

Fairview Farms was a thoroughbred racehorse training center. Madelon Wallace went to work there in 1971 breaking yearlings and galloping racehorses, and she married the farm manager and trainer, Tony Wallace, in 1975. Together they ran Fairview, which at its peak had as many as 70 horses in training and more than 20 employees. The old race track is still there, and its fence line still marks the land.

When the farm came up for sale, Madelon Wallace and the late Bud Myers organized a group of investors as Greenspace of Fairview, LLC to keep it as horse country rather than see it subdivided. In 2001 they placed the land under a conservation easement. Today Greenspace totals 1,331 acres: 14 farm tracts plus 778 acres of open space that is protected for good and owned in common by the tract owners. The Tryon Daily Bulletin covered the story in 2016.

Life here is about riding. Tract owners share more than 20 miles of private riding and hiking trails, a 12.5-acre lake, about 1.6 miles of North Pacolet River frontage and the historic three-quarter-mile Fairview race track with its open infield. Covenants limit animals, rule out commercial use and prevent further subdivision, and recent listings show a mandatory association fee of $1,500. Farm tracts have run from about 25 acres up, and FENCE held a hunter pace across the land in 2014.

Golden Hills of Fairview Farms adjoins Greenspace along Fairview Farms Road. A listing there describes it as a 500-acre equestrian community with access to a private trail system covering more than 1,000 acres, and some properties sit within both communities.

Because the two communities have different covenants and fees, we confirm the easement terms, trail rights and association rules for any tract before you make an offer.