Sights To See in the Greater Red Hills Region Thomas Co. 19 Designated Scenic Roads National Register Leon County, FL Historic Districts & Sites 122 Sunny Hill Road (partially paved) 8 Metcalfe Historic District Old Centerville Road (partially paved) 9 Miccosukee Historic District 84 Become a member of Tall Meridian Road (paved) 10 Tallahassee Historic Districts Centerville Road/Moccasin Gap Road (paved) Timbers Research Station 11 Thomasville Historic Districts 14 Miccosukee Road (paved) 2 3 12 Thomasville Visitors Center 13 & Land Conservancy St. Augustine Road (paved) 93 15 12 13 Hardy Bryan House 84 Old Bainbridge Road (paved) 11 14 Lapham-Patterson House Northern all Timbers relies on the generous support of our donors Bobwhite Quail Thomas County, GA 15 Thomasville’s Black Heritage Trail Tour Tto help sustain the important ecological research and Lower Cairo Rd. Gopher Tortoise New Hope Road (unpaved) (Colinus virginianus) conservation programs within the organization. 16 Pebble Hill Plantation (Gopherus polyphemus) Mill Pond Road (unpaved) Beyond general membership, donors can make a contribution 17 Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy 319 Glasgow Road (unpaved) Grady Co. to the Tall Timbers Land Conservancy. Since its inception 18 Bradley’s Country Store New Hope Rd. in 1990, our Land Conservancy has saved tens of thousands Twelve Mile Post Road (unpaved) 19 Lake Jackson Archaeological Mounds of acres, protecting the Red Hills’ beautiful rivers and lakes 16 Mill Pond Rd. and our rural countryside. The public benefi ts from these Museums Public Recreational Sites easements which protect the region’s water quality, clean 1 Tallahassee Museum of History 20 Phipps-Overstreet-Maclay Greenway air, and wildlife. We are also actively engaged in promoting and Natural Science Brooks Co. responsible growth by helping communities plan for develop- 21 Miccosukee Canopy Road Greenway 2 Thomas County Museum of History . Glasgow Rd. ment rather than being overwhelmed by it. This two-pronged d 22 Tallahassee-St. Marks Historic Railroad Trail R 3 Thomasville Cultural Center alf effort of land conservation and community planning will etc 23 Lake Jackson Aquatic Preserve ensure that the Red Hills will be conserved for this and future 4 Mission San Luis n/M 8 hto . ac d generations. 5 Goodwood Museum & Gardens Be 6 Twelve Mile Post Rd. Public Boat Landings Ochlockonee River R e The Red Hills is noted for its large “disappearing” lakes and l l Help us save the Red Hills! beautiful rivers, including the Ochlockonee and Aucilla Rivers. i Enjoy the region’s waterways through its many public landings. v Nature Centers r Become a member of Tall Timbers and make Rd. Major landings are located on the map with this symbol: ill e 6 Birdsong Nature Center t H n 59 a program-specifi c donation to our Land Sunny e 17 C Conservancy by calling (850) 893-4153 x 343, Aucilla River d Cocroft Rd. 19 or visiting us online at www.talltimbers.org/ Gardens l Lake Rd. O membership.htm. 7 Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park Lake Iamonia 18 9 ap O 319 n G asi ld cc Lake B o Miccosukee a /M in le b il r rv Gadsden Co. id e g t e n . 90 R e d d C R . Lake Madison Co. Meridian Rd. Meridian 20 kee 16 Jackson 23 osu icc Jefferson Co. 7 M 19 21 10 of north Florida and southwest Georgia 4 5 10 27 Ol LEGEND 1 d St. Augustine Rd. Urban Areas This brochure was made possible, in 22 Leon Co. Bodies of Water part, through the generous support Eastern Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) Designated Scenic Roads of the Cherokee Foundation, Inc., Thomasville, Georgia and the Roads and Interstates Georgia Power Foundation, Inc. County Lines Graphic Design and illustrations by Scott Sanders | Lenz | Decatur, Georgia • Main Photography by Richard T. Bryant Additional photography by K. McGorty, N. Fleckenstein, and T. Engstrom Sights To See in the Greater Red Hills Region The Red Hills The Red Hills Region boasts an abundance of natural and cultural heritage tourist sites. Each is best appreciated in person. elcome to the Red Hills — a fascinating and unique from tobacco barns to cemeteries, from marshes to groves Tallahassee as hunting grounds to take advantage of the * Wregion of golden wiregrass, stately pines, and his- of live oaks. region’s superb quail population. To maintain a proper All sites listed below are open to the public . For more information, including hours of operation and admission fees, call or go online. toric plantations. Bracketed between two southern rivers Driving down the moss draped, oak-canopied scenic quail habitat, careful and attentive land management and straddling the Georgia-Florida border, the Red Hills is dirt roads, travelers will see a great diversity of unusual techniques such as periodic burning have been as geologically, biologically, and culturally distinctive as any plant species which thrive in the clayey sands and loamy practiced now for more than a century. The result is Museums National Register Historic 17 Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy Public Boat Landings 13093 Henry Beadel Dr., Tallahassee, Florida area in the U.S. soils, which lie on top of dense layers of clay, which lie on the largest collection of undeveloped plantation lands The Red Hills is noted for its large “disappearing” lakes and beautiful rivers, 1 Tallahassee Museum of 32312 (850) 893-4153 Districts & Sites including the Ochlockonee and Aucilla Rivers. Enjoy the region’s waterways Considered to be one of “America’s Last Great Places” top of a limestone base. Water works its way past the clays in the country. www.talltimbers.org History and Natural Science through its many public landings. Major landings are located on the map. by The Nature Conservancy, the rolling landscape is a to the limestone, which dissolves the soft rock to form The maintenance of private “quail plantations” 8 Metcalfe Historic District Tall Timbers is considered one of the premier 3945 Museum Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32310 mosaic of pine parklands, fi ssures and sinkholes where streams will disappear under- made possible the protection of large areas of natural (850) 575-8684 • www.tallahasseemuseum.org The district is comprised of 35 historic struc- research, conservation, and education organi- tures, including the Metcalfe Railroad Depot zations in the nation focusing on fi re ecology, Annual Special Events hardwood forests, grassy habitats such as upland pine forests, lakes, and stream Explore the rich history, native wildlife, and built circa 1887. This little village served as an wildlife management, and land conservation. natural beauty of the Big Bend region. See important railroad hub in the late 19th century, The former antebellum and hunting plantation comprises 4,000 acres on the north Red Hills Horse Trials plains, and natural lakes that watersheds, and hardwood hammocks. Some of the Florida panthers, red wolves, black bears, and more at the natural habitat zoo. exporting the area’s cotton and longleaf pine shore of Lake Iamonia. Tours are offered of the historic Beadel House, the Jones W elcome to the Red Hills — www.rhht.org are rich in biological diversity South’s best remaining examples of old growth long- And step back in time as you tour an 1880s farmstead, historic school and timber to Georgia coastal markets. Family Tenant House, and nature trails. church, and antebellum plantation home. This annual three-day event in March is one and historical signifi cance. leaf pine-wiregrass ecosystems are found on plantation of the most popular attractions in the Red 9 Miccosukee Historic District 18 Bradley’s Country Store Serving as a lifeline a fascinating and unique lands near Thomasville. 2 Thomas County Museum of History Hills Region. The Trials feature a challenging At the crossroads of Moccasin Gap Road and State Road 59 is the village of Mic- 10655 Centerville Rd., Tallahassee, FL 32308, (850) 893-1647 cross-country course designed by Captain between coastal and north- The Red Hills stands apart from other regions 725 N. Dawson St., Thomasville, GA 31792 (229) 226-7664 cosukee. The town was platted in 1908, but its heritage goes back much farther. www.bradleyscountrystore.com Mark Phillips of Great Britain, dressage rings, ern wildlands, the Red Hills region of golden wiregrass, today in part because of human intervention, rather http://home.rose.net/~history/ Near the shores of Lake Miccosukee was the largest of the Seminole Indian and stadium course jumping. Near the intersection of Old Centerville and provides a ‘bio-reserve’ that than in spite of it; for much of the land has retained its Learn why wealthy Northerners fl ocked to towns with an estimated population of 1,000 in the early 1800s. Today, the sleepy Moccasin Gap Roads is the famous Bradley’s Thomasville in the 1880s—a period known as hamlet is a good place to stop en route to nearby beautiful Lake Miccosukee at Country Store, which has been selling its Thomasville Rose Show & Festival ensures habitat corridors and stately pines, and historic pristine beauty by virtue of this unique pattern of land the great Winter Resort Era. And fi nd out how Reeves Landing. renowned sausage since 1927. A great pit (229) 227-7020 genetic diversity, necessary ownership and management that developed during the Thomas County’s antebellum cotton plantations stop on any day, travelers can enjoy a fresh www.downtownthomasville.com/RoseFest06 were transformed into magnifi cent quail hunt- 10 Tallahassee Historic Districts sausage sandwich while sitting on the front for the survival of far-rang- plantations. last 100 years. ing retreats. Tour a pioneer log house, a mod- porch with the Bradley family. The City of Thomasville planted and maintains est Victorian home, a 19th century courthouse (850) 488-7100 • www.taltrust.org more than 7,000 rose bushes located through- ing mammals and migratory Today and into the future, the greatest threat facing and a bowling alley built in 1893.