09/21/2026
William Faulkner didn't just live at Rowan Oak, he rebuilt it with his own hands and then wrote some of American literature's most important work within these walls. Walk into his study and you'll see the outline of A Fable still penciled directly onto the plaster, exactly as he left it decades ago. The whole 29-acre property with its Bailey Woods trail costs just five dollars to explore, which feels like the deal of the century when you're standing where a Nobel Prize winner found his voice. Oxford's literary history lives here at 916 Old Taylor Road.