Marion County Farmland Auction
6004 Borden Road : Salem, IL 62881
Marion County, Illinois
Farm Description
Auction Location, Date, Time
Wednesday, February 27th at 10am
Salem Community Activities Center Gymnasium
416 Oglesby Street, Salem, IL 62881
Informational Open House Dates
Wednesday, January 30 • 11am-1pm
Friday, February 8 • 11am-1pm
Join our representatives to tour the property and learn more about our unique auction process. Informational Open House Dates held at the house on Tract 2 (6004 Borden Road, Salem, Il).
Property Information
Do not miss the opportunity to bid your price on 705± acres of Marion County land being offered for sale for the first time in over 70 years. With the multi-parcel auction format you can bid on any individual tract, combination of tracts or even the property in its entirety. This auction will give you, the bidder, the control and ability to tailor-make a purchase that fits your needs.
The property is being offered for sale in 9 tracts ranging in size from 8± acres to 191± acres and includes 513± acres of productive tillable farmland, recreational timber and a quaint country home with outbuildings and 18,000± bu. grain storage. Much of the offering includes tillable farmland which has an overall weighted P.I. rating of 101.7. Primarily timber, Tracts 4 and 5 offer excellent recreational opportunities for the outdoor enthusiast.
Tract 2 features a lovely, move-in-ready, brick home. The home sits on a full basement, has two bedrooms on the main floor with a full bath, and has the ability to have two additional bedrooms upstairs. Tract 2 also features multiple outbuildings including machine storage, a shop with concrete floor, grain storage and historic barns.
Farm History
Since 1942 the farm, formerly known as the “Borden Farm”, had been owned and operated by Warren and Gladys Williams until their deaths and subsequent inheritance by their heirs. The acreage was first put together by H. Lee Borden in the late 1880S. The Borden's enjoyed bringing show stock and advances for their time such as a generator providing electricity in a rural area where there was none. It is said that people found good employment there - maids in the house helping with the kitchen and laundry - even area children were said to earn a dollar a day (unheard of in those days) helping Mrs. Borden with weeding or around the grounds. In its prime the farm featured a 22 room mansion, 3-story round barn and 20+ outbuildings. Today only two of the original barns remain from that bygone era.
