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Comedian Jeff Foxworthy Buys 2,000 Acres

Jul. 25, 2003

Associated Press

HAMILTON, Ga. - Comedian Jeff Foxworthy bought 2,000 acres of hunting and fishing land in west Georgia, ending speculation that the area would become a golf resort.

Foxworthy, 44, closed the deal earlier this week in Atlanta. The price was not disclosed, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported Thursday.

The sprawling preserve includes streams, two lakes, a pond, kennels and silos. It also has an octagonal barn that has been converted into a lodge that can sleep 21 people.

Best-known for his "You might be a redneck if..." jokes, Foxworthy starred in the NBC sitcom "The Jeff Foxworthy Show" from 1995-97.

"It means a lot to him to be able to give this farm to his children," said Phebe Robertson, whose father, Harris County businessman Cason J. Callaway Jr., owned the property.

Foxworthy and his family "are real nature lovers," Robertson said. His family had a farm when he grew up. He and wife, Pamela, have two daughters, ages 11 and 9.

California developer Bill Phillips at one point had a contract with Callaway to build a golf resort community called Heritage at Callaway Farms but the project never materialized.

The Callaway family is a major landowner in west Georgia, home to Callaway Gardens botanical site.

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