A quail hunting plantation is a large tract of land typically with a natural wooded and grass habitat for the purpose of recreational hunting of bobwhite quail.
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Range
Quail hunting plantations are found throughout the southern United States from Texas to South Carolina with a high concentration in southern Georgia and northern Florida and may also offer hunting of dove, pheasant, duck, deer, boar as well as fishing. Properties can be public or private and usually have a lodge which can accommodate several people for several days.
Private hunting plantations keep to an exclusive clientele and are not advertised for hunting nor can they be accessed by the public.
History
In the southern United States, quail hunting plantations were created from old cotton plantations which were purchased beginning in the 1880s by wealthy northerners such as Howard Melville Hanna of Cleveland, Ohio, Clement Griscom of Philadelphia, Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, George H. Love, a Chrysler Corp. executive of Pittsburgh, Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr., a coal executive from Cleveland.