Loveridge Plantation was a quail hunting plantation located in northern Leon County

Leon County, Florida

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, Florida

Florida

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, United States

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 and established by George H. Love

George H. Love

George H. Love was a businessman and industrialist who was in control of two major corporations—the Consolidation Coal Company and the Chrysler Corporation—and lead both back to profitability.-Early life:...

.
Loveridge began as 1000 acre (404.7 ha) on the northwest corner of Lake Miccosukee

Lake Miccosukee

Lake Miccosukee is a large swampy prairie lake in northern Jefferson County, Florida, USA, located east of the settlement of Miccosukee. A small portion of the lake, its northwest corner, is located in Leon County.-Characteristics:...

. In 1956, Love acquired an additional 10500 acre (4,249.2 ha) of Sunny Hill Plantation

Sunny Hill Plantation

Sunny Hill Plantation was a large hunting plantation in northern Leon County, Florida.- Plantation :Sunny Hill Plantation was established by Lewis S. Thompson in 1913, and was created from the former W. G. Ponder Plantation...

 (northern section in map) from the estate of New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge.

George H. Love was a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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. He was Chairman of the Board

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 of the M.A. Hanna Company and succeeded George M. Humphrey

George M. Humphrey

George Magoffin Humphrey was an American lawyer, businessman and Cabinet secretary.Raised in Edenbronx, Humphrey received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan. After practicing law in his hometown for five years with his father's farm, he accepted a position with...

 when he became United States Secretary of the Treasury

United States Secretary of the Treasury

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 in 1953.

Love had been Chairman of the Board of Consolidation Coal Company, America's largest coal company. After reviving the coal industry, Love became Chairman of the Board

Chair (official)

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 of the Chrysler Corporation.

Adjacent plantations:

• Norias Plantation
  Norias Plantation
  Norias Plantation is a small quail hunting plantation located north of Lake Miccosukee in northeastern Leon County, Florida, United States.The land for Norias was sold by Colonel Lewis S. Thompson of Sunny Hill Plantation to Walter E. Edge, Governor of New Jersey and his hunting companion and...
  
   to the north
• Foshalee Plantation
  Foshalee Plantation
  Foshalee Plantation was a large quail hunting plantation located in northern Leon County, Florida, United States.First called Incochee, it was purchased in 1824 by Hezekiah and Ann Graham Ponder. Hezekiah and Ann are buried in a cemetery near U.S. 319....
  
   to the west
• Welaunee Plantation
  Welaunee Plantation, Florida
  Welaunee Plantation was a large quail hunting plantation located in central Leon County, Florida, USA established by Udo M. Fleischmann.-History:...
  
   to the southwest
• Ring Oak Plantation
  Ring Oak Plantation
  Ring Oak Plantation is a large quail hunting plantation located in northeast Leon County, Florida.- Origins :Ring Oak originally was the land of antebellum cotton plantations Blakely Plantation and Ingleside Plantation....
  
  to the south