Madelon Wallace
Realtor/ Co-Owner, Walker, Wallace and Emerson Realty
Landrum, SC 29356
Specializing in Equestrian, Conservation, Estate & Acreage Properties
Phone (864) 316-3484
Specializing in Equestrian, Conservation, Estate & Acreage Properties
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep
Property Types
Industrial, Land, Office, Retail, Specialty, Multi-Family
Markets
Greenville/Spartanburg
Bio
Madelon has been a member of the Foothills community for almost forty years and is proud to call this her home. She first came here as a student at Converse College and made lasting friendships while enjoying the area’s diverse equestrian activities –riding, showing, and foxhunting. She still remembers the thrill of jumping the hedges at the Cotton Patch Bottoms, the site of the 1956 Olympic selection trials. After graduation, she accepted a job galloping racehorses for Tony Wallace at Fairview Farms and made this her home. Madelon married Tony in 1975, and together they managed and operated Fairview Farms, which was then the Upstate’s only thoroughbred racehorse training facility and the producer of such nationally known stakes horses as Eclipse Award winners Chris Evert and Turkoman. She has fond memories of trips to Saratoga and Keeneland for races and sales, and visits to such historic venues as Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Hialeah, and Arlington Park, but her most treasured memories are of seeing a new crop of yearlings arrive at Fairview each year and helping them mature into young athletes. Her commitment to this community runs deep, like the roots she has put down here. Walker, Wallace & Emerson has been a proud supporter of Habitat for Humanity. Madelon is a past president of the Tryon-Polk County Board of Realtors, and a member of the Landrum Area Business Association and the Tryon Little Theatre Board of Directors. She has served on the board of the Foothills Equestrian Nature Center (FENCE), and each spring you will find her serving as a paddock judge at the Block House Steeplechase, a job that her late husband, Tony, performed for many years. Madelon has made it a priority to support local land conservancies, community supported agriculture, and the “buy local” initiatives that are so essential to our quality of life here in the Foothills. This area is home to a dedicated and diverse group of residents who have joined together to keep it a very special place. In order to protect and better our community, we must continue to be active and caring participants in the inevitable changes that are coming, and to direct them in a way that respects the land, natural resources, and sense of community that make this such a special place. For her, it is all about preserving the rural character of this area, maintaining, and building a strong and stable environment for our local businesses, and protecting the quality of life in a small town that offers large opportunities. In 2015 Madelon received the Realtor of The Year Award from the Hendersonville Board of Realtors and in 2016 the Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award from the Carolina Foothills Chamber of Commerce for her leadership in the advocacy effort that persuaded Duke Energy to reconfigure its’ proposed Western Carolinas Modernization Project so as to preserve the distinctive environment that is so essential to the economy and quality of life in the Foothills.
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