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.
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