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Cartwright is a picturesque rural area
The Southern Charm event space in Cartwright, Alabama, not only serves as the area’s favorite venue for weddings, proms, and class reunions, but it also captures the essence and character of the region: picturesque, rural, and community-oriented. The rustic red-roofed barn at Southern Charm is curated to the smallest detail, celebrating the history of northern Alabama and the area’s inextricable link to agriculture. “What I always tell people is that our town provides a rural country feel and small-town atmosphere, but that we’re still so close to Athens, Madison and Huntsville,” says the office manager at Elkmont Rural Village, a master-planned rural village on the northeast corner of Cartwright. “We’re growing, but so quickly that it sacrifices our rural way of life.”
Craftsman homes with wide vista views
Most of Cartwright’s homes are in residential pockets along one of the three rural two-lane country highways running north from Athens towards the Tennessee state line like prongs on a fork. Locals typically live no closer than a quarter-mile from their neighbors, with homes ranging from mobile homes to updated Craftsman and Farmhouse-style homes with large garages and plenty of outdoor living space. Homes in Cartwright are priced between $180,000 and $325,000, with the most expensive properties located within the Elkmont Rural Village, a housing development committed to promoting economic growth and ecological conservation within the Alabama portion of the Elk River Watershed.
A beautiful large white farm house on a large lot in Cartwright.
A modest smaller brick home in Cartwright
A row of beautiful brick ranch-style homes with attached garages in Cartwright.
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Rural trails connecting Cartwright's parks
Cartwright is home to a wide range of outdoor recreational opportunities, none more impressive than the Richard Martin Rails-to-Trails system, a 10-mile stretch of former railroad tracks stretching between Veto and Athens that has been converted into a scenic multi-use trail. The trail winds past Civil War battlefields and bird sanctuaries on its way through Cartwright, providing a picturesque space for biking, running, bird watching and horseback riding. Kids love the Kids Dugout, an enormous wooden playground next to Athens Sportsplex, an athletic complex with tennis courts, baseball fields, sand volleyball pits and an Olympic-sized swimming pool. On rainy days, locals can roll a few games at the Madison Bowling Center or catch a movie at the Cineplanet 15 movie theater.
A beautiful scenic of the woods in near Cartwright.
Kids love to slide down the slides at All Kids Park in Athens.
Families enjoy Swam Creek Park full of amenities for everyone in Athens.
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Supporting Cartwright's growing shopping scene
While Cartwright locals enjoy the privacy and seclusion of their wide-open rural town, the nearest shopping and dining options are in Athens, a 12-mile drive from the northern half of the community where shoppers can find familiar national retailers like Walmart and The Home Depot. The North Madison Corners Shopping Plaza in Madison provides additional retail options — including Marshall’s and Target — along with restaurants like Mia’s Cafe, a southern-style homestyle eatery with hearty servings of comfort food. Thankfully, new developments in Cartwright have brought some amenities closer to home, including the Piggly Wiggly Supermarket and Gin House Barbeque, a laid-back smokehouse serving a variety of smoked meats.
Residents of Cartwright do their grocery shopping at Publix Super Market at Midtown Centre.
Residents of Cartwright do their grocery shopping at the Hometown Market in Athens.
At lunch time there is barely enough room to sit at Momma D's Restaurant near Cartwright.
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Athens' award-winning school district
Students in Cartwright begin their education at Athens Elementary School, an A-minus-rated school on Niche with a student-teacher ratio of 18-to-1. Next, students move to Athens Middle School — earning a B on Niche — and Athens High School, an A-minus-rated school ranked among the top 40 on Niche’s list of Best Public High Schools in Alabama. Students at Athens High earn an average SAT score of 1100 and are regularly admitted into prestigious local universities like Auburn and the University of Alabama.
Athens High School
633 students walk through the entrance to Elkmont High School.
All Kids Park is a large fort-like playground built by volunteers in Athens.
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Navigating the country roads in Cartwright
Situated among the sprawling Alabama farmland between Athens and Richland Creek, Cartwright is 30 miles west of Huntsville near Alabama’s border with Tennessee. Interstate 65 cuts a vertical path along the community’s eastern edge, and residents can make the 90-mile commute into Nashville to access the nearest international airport. Cartwright is 170 miles from Memphis and Atlanta, while Birmingham — Alabama’s biggest city — is located 95 miles to the south.
A beautiful aerial view of Cartwright farm land and residential areas.
The roads of Cartwright are lined with beautiful pine trees.
A stunning aerial view of the farm land in Cartwright.
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Cartwright Demographics and Home Trends
On average, homes in Cartwright, Athens sell after 87 days on the market compared to the national average of 53 days. The median sale price for homes in Cartwright, Athens over the last 12 months is $273,000, up 5% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
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