1,137 Acres in Decatur County, Bainbridge, Georgia
Historic Hunting Plantation on 37,500 acre Lake SeminoleStrategic lakefront portion of the original 26,000 acre…
5,653 Acres in Decatur County, Bainbridge, Georgia
Property Details
| Parcel Size | 5,653 Acres |
| Price | $42,500,000 |
| State | Georgia |
| County | Decatur |
| City | Bainbridge |
| Zip Code | 39819 |
Property Description
Southlands’ 5,653 acres is one of the South’s “A” ranked High-Quality Recreational Properties. It has been under quality management going back 87 years. Its history is impeccable. Today, it’s regarded as one of the few places in the South where one can consistently have and harvest B&C Whitetails. From wild quail and turkey to waterfowl, the wing-shooting here is exceptional. It boasts a 30-acre duck pond and 20-acre fishing lake. Elevations run from 80 to 310 feet with the property literally standing at the beginning of the Appalachian Mountains. With 4.5 miles of frontage on Army Corp Lands, the adjacent 37,500-acre Lake Seminole provides recreational opportunities throughout the year making this truly a year-round destination. Bainbridge is the “sister city” to Thomasville and this small Georgia town is a shining light. Not only is this property surrounded by an abundance of recreational and social opportunities, but it has also been owned and managed by a “who’s who” in terms of landowners.Southlands Story: Southlands started out as 26,000 acres originally assembled by none other than Herbert Stoddard himself, co-founder of Tall Timbers and “father of prescribed burning.” Houghton Metcalf, a wealthy industrialist from Rhode Island, purchased the rights from Stoddard in 1937 and built his lodge on the 200-foot bluff overlooking what is now Lake Seminole. He turned Southlands into a sportsman’s paradise. It was then acquired by International Paper to be used as a teaching forest. It then became world renown as the Southlands Experiment Forest and was the flagship property of their 12M acre empire. One of the reasons is because of the vast diversity of timber types. Few, if any, places have the ecological diversity of this one property. In fact, there is even a book making a case that this area was the original Garden of Eden. In 2010, Jim Dahl, a philanthropist and multi-plantation landowner, set his sights on the 5,653-acre Southlands.Modern wildlife management techniques were implemented on a huge scale. A 20-acre private lake and 30-acre flooded duck pond were built, improvements were added to and recapitalized, and they even built a high fence along the north and south boundaries. As a result, numerous B&C record book bucks are on the property including one that was recently harvested scoring a whopping 187in. The current Chairman of the Board of Tall Timbers personally hunts here, and he will tell us that he regularly moves 8-12 coveys in an afternoon and has moved as many as 25! Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia completed the Georgia leg of his Turkey Grand Slam here. Today, this property is the epitome of what a highly managed recreational property should be. Herbert Stoddard would be proud.Today, this is the first time since 1937 that it has made a public appearance on the market… 87 years since Stoddard himself brokered the original sale.Southlands contains 5,653+/- acres of the “best of the best” of the original 26,000 acres. The property sits on the edge of Curry Hill with 230 feet of elevation change.…
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| Bainbridge, 39819 Georgia | County: Decatur |
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