Prominent Texas pecan-farming family lists Hill Country ranch for $25M

Most of the ranches that we cover here at Chron—and there are so, so many of them—have been used to raise cattle, or horses, or maybe most often, the next generation of hunters. But the 2,650 acres just listed by Layne Walker of Hall & Hall has been used for 70 years for a much less typical purpose: farming pecans.

And not just any pecans. Big Valley Pecan Farm in San Saba County, with an asking price of $25 million, belongs to the third-generation heirs of one O.P. Leonard, who was born in northeast Texas at the tail end of the 19th century. Leonard’s eponymous Fort Worth department store featured the city’s first escalator and, during its time, the only private subway in the U.S.

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