Quail Hunting Plantation - History

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.

Read more about this topic:  Quail Hunting Plantation

Famous quotes containing the word history:

    If usually the “present age” is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as the history of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.
    Josiah Royce (1855–1916)

    A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    [Men say:] “Don’t you know that we are your natural protectors?” But what is a woman afraid of on a lonely road after dark? The bears and wolves are all gone; there is nothing to be afraid of now but our natural protectors.
    Frances A. Griffin, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 19, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)