The Story behind the creation of The Spartan Village – A Retro Trailer Coach Park

Although I am a native of Wisconsin, I have spent most of my life living in the South and have adapted very well other than learning to like sweet tea and eating any shape or form of okra. I retired from the Army in 2014 and the Federal Service in 2017 as an Intelligence Officer. So, I went from being a very busy bee to retirement and was not prepared for it. You know what they say about idle hands and the devil, well I started to look for a project. In short, I tried several things to include completing my PsyD and getting a certificate in hypnotherapy, which I enjoy very much; however, it did not satisfy my creative side. So, one day after overdosing on HGTV episodes and the Tiny Home explosion, I decided to develop  a retro trailer coach park using vintage Airstreams. I had owned two Airstreams in the past and decided they were the right direction to go in.  In my search of these vintage trailers, I stumbled upon the elusive Spartan travel coach, and it was love at first sight.

 

When I started to research the Spartan travel coach history and their connection to the military, I decided they would be the perfect vintage trailers to use in my park; however, little did I know how hard these suckers would be to find.

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I found individuals in Ohio and North Carolina that collected and worked on Spartans and purchased three of them that way; however, lesson learned the rehab was better on some than others. I found Spartans on the Facebook Market Place, and on the Web; however, many of these beautiful historical Spartans had been left abandoned to the elements and were far too gone to rescue. I was on a rescue mission to find Spartan travel coach’s that were in their original condition that had been either restored or had the potential to be restored. I joined the Facebook Spartan Trailer group and found some Spartans through that forum but mostly I found the ones I eventually purchased on the Spartan Aircraft Trailers website.

 

While I was hunting down Spartan Travel Coaches, I was looking for land to put them on and that

became a challenge because I needed to find unrestricted property. I found the perfect property

in the little mountain town of Tellico Plains, TN that already had utilities on site. Thus began a long

three-year development of The Spartan Village, that had me crying at times and laughing hysterically

at other times. I had moments that I wanted to abandon my dream, and others when I started to go

in a different direction because I listened to others who did not share my vision. However, in the end

I remained true to my original dream of creating a one-of-a-kind retro trailer coach parks to share

with others and at the same time preserve a piece of our American history. So, come on down, step

back in time and relax without the distractions of modern times!