Heardmont Farm

Heardmont Farm was a country estate and cattle ranch owned by attorney Howard Perdue Jr on a 79-acre parcel bisected by Cahaba Valley Creek at 5458 Cahaba Valley Road in northern Shelby County.

Perdue purchased the land from Morgan Denson in 1966. He named it for the Heardmont plantation in Elbert County, Georgia, which was established in 1781 by his great-great-great grandfather and then-Georgia Governor Stephen Heard. He cleared the land and built a cabin on the property for use as a weekend retreat. During the 1970s he raised a small herd of Polled Hereford cattle in a fenced corral. When Perdue died in 1993 the land passed to his daughter, Nancy Boone.

Shelby County and the Shelby County Board of Education purchased the former farm in 1997 from the City of Hoover and redeveloped it for recreational use as Heardmont Park. The farmhouse, entrance gate, and other features were retained in the park design.

References

• Acree, Kathryn (June 27, 2012) "Remembering Heardmont Farm." 280 Living