Kennesaw Farms

Kennesaw Farms at a glance

Kennesaw Farms is a roughly 300-acre master-planned community along Nashville Pike (US-31E) in Gallatin, sitting about midway between downtown Gallatin and Hendersonville. It was designed as something uncommon for Sumner County: a mixed-use, walkable 'small town' where shops, restaurants, offices, and services are woven directly into the residential plan rather than fenced off across a highway. The original sections were built out roughly 2006 to 2022, and the community is still actively growing — the developer and builder, Gallatin-based Southeastern Building Corporation, is selling new all-brick homes today in two sections, The Paddock and The Grove, with a large city-approved expansion behind them. That combination — an established, mature neighborhood with a live new-construction pipeline inside it — is unusual along this corridor, and it shapes almost everything else worth knowing about the community.

The orientation matters if you're shopping from a distance. The community fronts Nashville Pike, with its newest section sitting immediately east of Big Station Camp Boulevard, a few minutes from the eastern end of Vietnam Veterans Boulevard (SR-386) — the divided commuter parkway that feeds I-65. Downtown Nashville runs roughly 30 to 40 minutes depending on traffic. Old Hickory Lake's shoreline is a short drive south across Nashville Pike — nearby, but not inside the community — and we'll be precise about what that means further down, because it's a detail worth getting exactly right.

From thoroughbred farm to master plan: the land's story

Most subdivisions borrow a pastoral name. Kennesaw Farms actually has the history. The story starts in 1856, when Washington LaFayette 'Fate' Baber built a two-story Federal-style mansion on Nashville Pike. Local legend holds that A.C. Franklin — brother of Isaac Franklin of neighboring Fairvue — won the Kennesaw mansion and its 292 surrounding acres from Baber in a wager aboard a Mississippi River gambling boat bound for New Orleans. Under the Franklin family, Kennesaw became a celebrated thoroughbred breeding operation: A.C. Franklin assembled nearly 1,400 acres, the horse business dated to 1868, and the community's own history page states that horses bred at Kennesaw went on to win two Kentucky Derby titles and a Belmont Stakes. Union troops occupied the farm during the Civil War, but it survived. The Franklins held the land until 1913; the McMahan family owned it from 1913 until 2004, when it sold to become the development you see today.

That heritage isn't just brochure copy — it's physically present. The 1856 mansion still stands as the community's centerpiece: renovated in 2005 and renamed The Baber House, it now operates as a wedding and special-event venue inside the neighborhood. And the street map reads like a stable ledger — Paddock, Halter Park, Cavaletti, Hayloft, Horseshoe, Vanner, Sabino. For a buyer weighing lookalike new-construction options along the Nashville Pike corridor, this is the community where the name on the entry sign is doing real work.

The master plan and the developer

Kennesaw Farms is developed and built by Southeastern Building Corporation, a Gallatin-based company headquartered on Bluegrass Commons Boulevard, selling through its Southeastern Select Properties arm. That local footprint matters in practice: this is the developer's home turf, and the master plan reflects a long-hold approach rather than a build-and-leave one. The design intent is a walkable small town — residential streets feeding a mixed-use core called Thoroughbred Park, a shopping village planned for community markets, boutiques, and restaurants with the restored mansion as its centerpiece, plus 42-plus acres of office space along the Nashville Pike frontage. Rental housing is part of the mix by design: MAA Kennesaw Farms, an apartment community, operates at 1060 Kennesaw Boulevard inside the plan, and Avondale at Kennesaw Farms is a second on-site apartment community.

The next chapter is already approved. The Paddock at Kennesaw Farms expansion is a City of Gallatin-approved mixed-use development on 205.27 (+/-) acres, platted for 632 single-family detached lots, 56 single-family attached lots, 682 multi-family units, and 4 commercial lots, located east of Big Station Camp Boulevard, north of Nashville Pike, and south of the CSX railroad line. The city lists its status as 'Under Construction,' with various residential phases holding final approval. Commercial build-out is active too — a multi-tenant building on 2.45 (+/-) acres north of Nashville Pike recently received final planning approval. Translation for a buyer: this community will be adding homes, apartments, and storefronts for years, and that cuts both ways. We'll walk through both sides in the honest read further down.

The established side of the community is organized into distinct sections built out roughly 2006 to 2022: Kinnesaw Village (cottages and townhomes, historically marketed with 18 floor plans), Glengary Fields (single-family homes), Kingman Downs (the estate-home section), plus the Kennesaw Courtyard homes and attached Kennesaw Villas. Those original sections — built by various builders beginning in 2004 — are resale-only in 2026. The newest phases, The Paddock and The Grove, are where new construction is actually happening today.

Who's building, and what it costs right now

Unlike the multi-builder master plans elsewhere in Sumner County, Kennesaw Farms today is a one-builder community for new construction: Southeastern Building Corporation is the only builder actively selling here, in The Paddock and The Grove. The upside is consistency — all-brick construction across the current product, one design language, one warranty conversation. The trade-off is that you're not comparison-shopping builders within the neighborhood; you're comparing Southeastern's plans against other communities. That's a comparison our team can run with you against the rest of the Gallatin-Hendersonville corridor.

The Paddock: courtyard, bungalow, and villa homes

The Paddock is the flagship of the current phase — all-brick courtyard, bungalow, and villa homes with a strong primary-bedroom-on-main emphasis. As of mid-2026, builder inventory was priced from $433,900 to $558,488, spanning roughly 1,576 to 2,351 square feet in configurations from 2-bedroom/2-bath up to 4-bedroom/3-bath. The model home sits at 1158 Kennesaw Boulevard. Named plans showing up in current listing remarks include The Briley (a popular courtyard plan with the primary on the main level), The Brooks (2BR/2BA all-brick at 2,220 square feet), The Harlow (2BR/2BA with a two-car garage), and The Annabelle (an all-brick two-story, 3BR/2.5BA at 2,195 square feet). If you're picturing who this product serves: it's the right-sizing buyer, the low-maintenance buyer, and anyone who wants brick-on-all-sides new construction without a big yard attached to it.

The Grove: all-brick townhomes

The Grove at Kennesaw Farms is the townhome section, and it's the community's current entry point on price. These are 3-bedroom/2.5-bath all-brick townhomes in two floor plans — one with the primary bedroom down, one with it up — running 1,745 to 1,962 square feet and priced $347,900 to $388,187 in mid-2026 builder inventory (real examples: a Halter Park Drive unit at $347,900 and a Sabino Place unit at $388,187). The model is at 1302 Sabino Place. Finishes run to open layouts, kitchen islands, granite counters, and semi-private decks or patios, with the whole section pitched at low-maintenance living. For scale: within Kennesaw Farms itself, detached new construction opened at $433,900 in the same mid-2026 inventory, so a new all-brick townhome in the mid-$300,000s is the community's price floor — a data point worth knowing about.

The official community site's floor-plan gallery also lists The Greenwood, The Boland, The William, The St. Charles, The Havenbrooke, The St. Clair, and The St. Clair II — with specs behind the individual plan pages rather than published openly. That's an honest gap in the public record: if you want current spec sheets, elevations, and lot-specific pricing on any of these, ask us to pull them live, because third-party copies of plan specs go stale quickly.

Amenities, HOA dues, and what they cover

The amenity package is established, not promised: two swimming pools (one described as Olympic-style), a clubhouse, a fitness center, a playground, pocket parks, and sidewalks and pedestrian paths threaded through the community. Layer the mixed-use core on top — the Thoroughbred Park retail village and the Baber House event venue — and the everyday pitch is that errands, a swim, and a walk happen inside the neighborhood rather than at the end of a drive.

HOA dues are not one number here, because the products differ so much. Per HOA-directory data, Glengary and Kingman Downs run about $77 per month; the Kennesaw Courtyard homes about $168 per month; the Kennesaw Villas about $198 per month — with neighborhoods.com showing an overall range of $84 to $225 across products. The association is managed by Ghertner & Company. Dues fund common-area maintenance, pool and clubhouse access, the fitness center, the playground, and planned community events; in the attached villa and courtyard sections, the HOA also covers full lawn care (mowing and edging), landscaping, and irrigation — which is precisely why those sections cost more per month. A transfer fee of approximately $1,250 applies at closing. One honest gap: dues for The Grove townhomes were not yet published on the builder's page as of this writing — get the current figure in writing before you contract, not after.

Lots and home character

Kennesaw Farms tilts decisively toward low-maintenance formats: attached villas, zero-lot-line homes, courtyard homes, and townhomes, with 'manageable' lot sizes on the single-family product. Kingman Downs carries the community's larger estate-style lots and its biggest homes. The recent sales mix tells the story plainly — of the trailing twelve months' closings, roughly 38 were single-family, 18 townhomes, 9 zero-lot-line attached, and 2 HPR-attached. Exact lot dimensions aren't published on primary sources, so if a specific yard size is a dealbreaker for you, that's a plat-level question we can answer on a specific lot rather than a community-wide one. If you want a half-acre and room for a workshop, this probably isn't your community; if you want brick, sidewalks, and a Saturday that doesn't involve a mower, it's aimed directly at you.

Location and commute

The address is the practical argument. Kennesaw Farms fronts Nashville Pike roughly midway between downtown Gallatin — with its historic town square — and Hendersonville, so both towns' retail, restaurants, and services are minutes away in either direction. The Paddock sits immediately east of Big Station Camp Boulevard, a few minutes from the eastern end of Vietnam Veterans Boulevard (SR-386), the divided parkway that carries Sumner County's commuters to I-65. Downtown Nashville runs approximately 30 to 40 minutes depending on traffic; listing-site estimates put Vanderbilt, Nissan Stadium, the Grand Ole Opry, and Nashville International Airport at about 25 minutes. Treat all of those as estimates from listing sites, not measurements — when you tour, drive your actual commute at the hour you'd actually leave. It's the one variable no website can answer for you.

The lake question, answered precisely

Gallatin sits along the north shore of Old Hickory Lake, the Cumberland River reservoir operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the lake is a real part of this area's everyday appeal. Kennesaw Farms itself, though, is an interior community, not a waterfront one. No deeded or private Old Hickory Lake access is documented for Kennesaw Farms; City of Gallatin planning records place the newest Paddock phase north of Nashville Pike, and the lake shoreline lies a short drive south across the Pike. You will see Old Hickory Lake mentioned in descriptions of this part of Gallatin — read those as statements of proximity, not access. The accurate framing: the lake is a genuine nearby amenity, with public ramps, marinas, and Corps of Engineers recreation areas minutes away, but it is not a backyard feature, and no lot here should be bought on an assumption of water access without verifying it in writing for that specific lot. If lake frontage or deeded access is the actual requirement, tell us — that's a different (and differently priced) list of communities, and we'll build it for you honestly.

Schools

Kennesaw Farms is in the Sumner County Schools district, and the zoning picture here is unusually consistent: all 67 recent tracked sales in the community were zoned to a single cluster — Station Camp Elementary School, Station Camp Middle School, and Station Camp High School. We don't rate or endorse schools ourselves; for performance data, look at the Tennessee State Report Card (tn.gov/education) and GreatSchools.org and draw your own conclusions. Attendance zones are set by the district and can change as this fast-growing corridor adds capacity, so confirm the current assignment for your specific address directly with Sumner County Schools before you buy.

What homes actually sell for here

Start with the live picture. As of July 1, 2026, there were 28 active listings in Kennesaw Farms priced from $429,000 to $639,900, with an average list price of $504,734 — about $247 per square foot on an average home of 2,067 square feet, 2.9 bedrooms, and 2.4 baths. Note what that snapshot implies: the resale market and the builder's new inventory overlap almost completely on price, which is a useful sanity check in both directions.

Now the trailing year. Twelve-month resale data published in 2026 shows roughly 75 closed sales community-wide at a median sold price of about $470,000 (average $487,135), with a full sold range of $325,000 to $962,000 — that spread from a townhome at the bottom to a Kingman Downs estate home at the top is the community's product diversity showing up in the ledger. Median price per square foot ran about $238, on homes from 1,576 to 4,034 square feet. The Paddock section alone recorded 28 closed sales at a median of $482,571 in 2026 tracking of Station Camp-zone Gallatin neighborhoods. One caution: published medians for this community vary meaningfully by source and time window — one directory shows a substantially higher figure using different inclusion rules — which is exactly why every number in this section carries a date. These are dated snapshots of what has traded, not a forecast; we can't predict where prices go, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we can do is pull live comps on the specific home and section you're weighing.

The honest buyer's read

What's uncommon here, for Sumner County: a walkable mixed-use design where retail, offices, apartments, townhomes, villas, and single-family homes share one master plan — plus an active new-construction pipeline (632 detached and 56 attached lots approved in The Paddock) inside an otherwise established, mature community. You get grown trees and a functioning amenity core and new-home warranties in the same neighborhood, which is a combination most communities can't offer because they're either fully built or fully raw.

The trade-offs are just as concrete, and you should weigh them with open eyes. First, construction will be part of life here for years — hundreds of approved lots, plus multi-family and commercial phases, mean dirt work, builder traffic, and evolving streetscapes near the newest sections. Second, the mixed-use model is a preference, not an upgrade: 682 approved multi-family units and active commercial build-out mean more activity, more neighbors per acre near the core, and a livelier street scene than a conventional single-product subdivision. Some buyers move here precisely for that; others want quieter, lower-density streets, and both are legitimate. Third, this is a one-builder community for new construction, so plan selection is what Southeastern offers — no cross-shopping builders inside the gates. Fourth, HOA dues and coverage differ sharply by section ($77 to nearly $200 per month), so 'what does Kennesaw Farms cost monthly' has no single answer until you pick a product. And fifth, as covered above, the lake is nearby, not on-site — plan around proximity, not access. None of these is a defect — they're the shape of the thing. The mistake is buying without knowing which of them applies to your lot.

What to verify before you buy

• Current pricing, inventory, and incentives for the exact section you want — The Paddock and The Grove move independently, and builder inventory pricing changes without notice.
• The Grove's HOA dues and coverage in writing — they weren't publicly posted at the time of this research, and 'coming soon' is not a budget line.
• Your section's exact HOA obligations: dues, what's covered (lawn care is included in some attached sections and not others), the ~$1,250 transfer fee at closing, and the current CC&Rs from Ghertner & Company.
• What's approved to be built near your specific lot — pull the Paddock plat and the City of Gallatin's development page so you know where the remaining residential, multi-family, and commercial phases land relative to your backyard.
• School zoning for your exact address with Sumner County Schools — the community currently tracks to the Station Camp cluster, but zones can change in a growing county.
• Lot dimensions and easements on the recorded plat, since exact lot sizes aren't published anywhere public.
• The builder's warranty terms, included-versus-upgrade finishes, and build timeline — and an independent inspection (pre-drywall if you're building), because new construction is not a reason to skip one.
• Your real commute, driven at your real departure time, via Big Station Camp Boulevard to SR-386.

Kennesaw Farms FAQ

Who is building new homes in Kennesaw Farms in 2026?

Southeastern Building Corporation, the Gallatin-based developer of the community, is the only builder actively selling new construction in Kennesaw Farms in 2026, in two sections: The Paddock (courtyard, bungalow, and villa homes) and The Grove (townhomes). The original sections, built by various builders beginning in 2004, are resale-only today.

How much do new homes in Kennesaw Farms cost?

As of mid-2026 builder inventory: townhomes in The Grove run $347,900 to $388,187 (3BR/2.5BA, 1,745-1,962 square feet), and homes in The Paddock run $433,900 to $558,488 (roughly 1,576-2,351 square feet, 2BR/2BA up to 4BR/3BA). All current product is all-brick. Builder pricing changes without notice, so treat these as a dated snapshot and confirm live numbers before you plan around them.

What are the HOA dues at Kennesaw Farms and what do they cover?

Dues vary by section: roughly $77 per month in Glengary and Kingman Downs, about $168 in the Kennesaw Courtyard homes, and about $198 in the Kennesaw Villas, per HOA-directory data. Dues cover common areas, two pools, the clubhouse, fitness center, playground, and community events; the attached villa and courtyard sections also get full lawn care, landscaping, and irrigation. A transfer fee of approximately $1,250 applies at closing, and the association is managed by Ghertner & Company. The Grove's dues were not yet published at the time of research — verify before contracting.

Does Kennesaw Farms have Old Hickory Lake access?

No deeded or private lake access is documented for Kennesaw Farms. The Old Hickory Lake shoreline is a short drive south across Nashville Pike — a genuine nearby amenity, with public ramps, marinas, and Corps of Engineers recreation areas minutes away — but it is not inside the community. If lake access matters to your purchase, verify it in writing for the specific lot before you contract.

What schools serve Kennesaw Farms?

Kennesaw Farms is zoned to Sumner County Schools' Station Camp cluster — Station Camp Elementary, Station Camp Middle, and Station Camp High — based on all 67 recent tracked sales in the community. Confirm the current assignment for a specific address with Sumner County Schools, and check performance data yourself at tn.gov/education and GreatSchools.org.

How far is Kennesaw Farms from Nashville?

The community fronts Nashville Pike (US-31E) between downtown Gallatin and Hendersonville, a few minutes from Vietnam Veterans Boulevard (SR-386), which connects to I-65. Downtown Nashville runs approximately 30 to 40 minutes depending on traffic, and listing-site estimates put Vanderbilt, the Grand Ole Opry, and Nashville International Airport at about 25 minutes. Drive your own commute at your actual departure hour before you commit.

Is Kennesaw Farms finished, or still under construction?

Still growing, by design. The original sections were built roughly 2006-2022 and are established. The Paddock at Kennesaw Farms expansion — 205.27 (+/-) acres approved by the City of Gallatin for 632 single-family detached lots, 56 attached lots, 682 multi-family units, and 4 commercial lots — is listed by the city as under construction, with residential phases holding final approval. Expect active building in and around the newest sections for years.