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Miccosukee Hills Plantation MICCOSUKEE HILLS PLANTATION 807 +/- ACRES LEON COUNTY • FLORIDA MICCOSUKEE HILLS PLANTATION 807 +/- ACRES LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA Miccosukee Hills Plantation, consists of 807+/- acres and represents one of vistas of the dramatic elevation changes. The the most unique real estate offerings in the Red rolling pastures and park-like setting are well Hills Plantation belt. The property was formerly a suited for equestrian activities and also provide part of Loveridge Plantation and offers incredible incredible home sites. The proximity to Florida’s terrain and wildlife diversity. A gated entrance capital city gives this property tremendous long gives way to an oak avenue that meanders term upside, while its positioning in the center of through the property and offers breath-taking the plantation belt is simply unsurpassed. MICCOSUKEE HILLS PLANTATION is in close proximity to it name sake — Lake Micco - positioned throughout the property. Given its sukee. From atop the ruins of the nineteenth proximity to Lake Miccosukee, the property has century home, filtered lake views can be had. A tremendous potential for the creation of a world class majestic oak allee’ winds through the property and plant and flood duck impoundment. The property has across the dam of a beautiful 10 acre stocked lake. excellent road frontage on all side of the property and Additionally, 3 smaller stocked ponds can be found is completely fenced with nine gated entrances. THE WILDLIFE COMPONENT of the property is as diverse as the terrain. The features rolling hills, mature hardwoods, ponds and northern portion of the property consists of approx - planted pines. This area creates exceptional imate 355 acres of longleaf pine with an understory habitat for whitetail deer, turkey, duck and migratory of wiregrass. This portion of the property has been dove by the thousands. This is an extremely rare extensively managed with an emphasis on bob - property that embodies all the amenities the Red white quail habitat. The balance of the property Hills has to offer. TREE SPECIES FOUND on MICCOSUKEE HILLS PLANTATION RED OAK HACKBERRY Alamo Red Oak Edgar Allen Poe Hackberry Vicksburg Red Oak OSAGE ORANGE BURR OAK Patrick Henry Osage Orange Sam Houston Kissing Burr Oak WALNUT Pickett’s Charge Black Walnut OVERCUP OAK Abraham Lincoln Birthplace PECAN Overcup Oak Alamo Pecan PIN OAK MAGNOLIA Gettysburg Pin Oak Robert E. Lee Southern Magnolia LOCUST CYPRESS Fort Atkinson Black Locust Bald Cypress Gettysburg Address Honey Locust DOGWOOD Harpers Ferry Dogwood ASH Dwight D. Eisenhower CRABAPPLE Green Ash Woodrow Wilson Crabapple George Washington Carver THE TREE NURSERY Sullivan Brothers Crabapple Green Ash is another interesting feature located within Micco - PERSIMMON SYCAMORE Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Robert E. Lee Sycamore Persimmon sukee Hills Plantation. The nursery includes speci - Cradle of the Confederacy Sycamore CHINESE SCHOLAR men trees form historic properties such as Magnolias Fairmount Park Chinese Scholar POPLAR George Washington from Robert E. Lee’s Stratford Hall home, Overcup REDBUD Tulip Poplar Clara Barton Redbud Oaks from Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace, and SILVER MAPLE Shiloh Silver Maple Pecans from The Alamo to name a few. These trees RED MAPLE have been transplanted throughout the property to Florida Champion Red Maple Mount Vernon Red Maple create impressive entrances and avenues. Montpelier Red Maple HACKBERRY Edgar Allen Poe Hackberry THIS PLACE IN HISTORY Miccosukee, pronounced mik-uh-soo-kee, describes a Lake Miccosukee) that provided an excellent water Native American offshoot of the Creek tribe that later source in addition to prime hunting grounds. In 1818, assimilated into the developing Seminole nation. The Andrew Jackson invaded the village and defeated the present day town of Miccosukee was originally settled Miccosukee chief Kinhagee. This paved the way for set - by this tribe and was first mapped by the British in 1778. tlers who first established prosperous cotton plantations The area contained a large “prairie lake” (now know as and later the Florida Central Railroad. ABOUT THE AREA The Red Hills region of north Florida and southwest area, comprised of approximately 300,000 acres, is Georgia is a distinct American landscape. These home to the largest concentration of traditional private, scenic lands from Tallahassee, Florida to quail hunting plantations in the United States. The Thomasville, Georgia and from the Aucilla River to four seasons we experience are a mild spring, the Ochlockonee River, form an ecologically rich subtropical summer, warm but pleasant fall, and area protecting some of the last remnants of great cool-to-chilly winter. The annual average tempera - Longleaf Pine forests in our country. This unique ture high is 78 degrees and the low is 55 degrees. MICCOSUKEE HILLS PLANTATION Price Available Upon Request MAY BE SOLD DIVIDED OFFERED EXCLUSIVELY THE P REMIER P ROPERTY GROUP THE WRIGHT GROUP PREMIER PROPERTY GROUP Real Estate Advisory & Brokerage Services 10 343 East Highway 3A 120 East Jackson Street Suite 105 Thomasville, Georgia 31792 Seacrest Beach, Florida 32413 229.226.2564 850.21 3.5000 Toll Free 877.21 3.2290 Ben W. McCollum, Broker Fax 850.21.5008 [email protected] • 229.221.6680 Nelson Davis Eric J. McCollum, Timberland Director [email protected] • 850.685.7286 [email protected] • 229.200.4457 THEPREMIERPROPERTYGROUP.COM WRIGHTBROKER.COM.
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