Luna Plantation
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Quail hunting plantation
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.-Range:...
located in northeastern Leon County
Leon County, Florida
Leon County is a county located in the state of Florida, named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. At the 2010 Census, the population was 275,487. The county seat of Leon County is Tallahassee which also serves as the state capital. The county seat is home to two of Florida's major...
, Florida
Florida
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, United States
United States
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established by Lloyd C. Griscom.
Lloyd C. Griscom was the son of Clement A. Griscom
Clement Griscom
Clement Acton Griscom was a prominent American Quaker businessman and nineteenth century shipping magnate.-Biography:...
from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
. Clement was a shipping magnate, President of the Red Star Line
Red Star Line
The Red Star Line was an ocean passenger line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium...
and American Line
American Line
The American Line was a shipping company based in Philadelphia that was founded in 1871. It began as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, although the railroad got out of the shipping business soon after founding the company...
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Almost four years after the death of Clement A. Griscom
Clement Griscom
Clement Acton Griscom was a prominent American Quaker businessman and nineteenth century shipping magnate.-Biography:...
, on October 19, 1916 Horseshoe Plantation
Horseshoe Plantation
Horseshoe Plantation is an cotton plantation located in northern Leon County, Florida and established around 1840 by Dr. Edward Bradford, a planter from Enfield, North Carolina.It is currently owned and maintained by Frederic C. Hamilton. Mr...
was divided up and part sold. Lloyd C. Griscom, Clement's son received 4000 acre (1,618.7 ha) on the west side naming it Luna Plantation while his sister Frances C. Griscom
Frances C. Griscom
Frances Canby Griscom was an American amateur golfer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and part-time resident of Tallahassee, Florida....
, a sportswoman, received 7000 acre (2,832.8 ha) of the old plantation to the east and named it Water Oak Plantation
Water Oak Plantation
Water Oak Plantation was a was a small cotton plantation of located in northern Leon County, Florida, USA established by Richard Bradford.- Location :Water Oak was located in the general area of Bradfordville.Adjacent plantations:...
. Frances Griscom won the 1900 United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship
United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship
The U.S. Women's Amateur is the leading golf tournament in the United States for female amateur golfers. It is played annually and is one of the 13 United States national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association . Female amateurs from all nations are eligible to compete...
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Adjacent plantations
Adjacent plantations 1947:- Water Oak PlantationWater Oak PlantationWater Oak Plantation was a was a small cotton plantation of located in northern Leon County, Florida, USA established by Richard Bradford.- Location :Water Oak was located in the general area of Bradfordville.Adjacent plantations:...
to the east - Orchard Pond PlantationOrchard Pond PlantationOrchard Pond Plantation was a large cotton plantation originally of 8754 acres located in northwestern Leon County, Florida, USA established by Richard Keith Call.-Location:...
to the south - Ayavalla PlantationAyavalla PlantationAyavalla Plantation was a quail hunting plantation located in west central Leon County, Florida established by John Henry Phipps, son of John Shaffer Phipps of the prominent Phipps family.Ayavalla was the Indian word used by Ellen Call Long for Lake Jackson...
to the south
Lloyd C. Griscom purchased the Tallahassee Democrat
Tallahassee Democrat
The Tallahassee Democrat is a daily broadsheet newspaper. It covers the area centered around Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida, as well as adjacent Gadsden County, Jefferson County, and Wakulla County...
in 1929 owning it until his death in 1958. His widow owned the paper from 1958 through 1965.
Adjacent plantations 1967:
- Kinhega LodgeKinhega LodgeKinhega Lodge was a hunting and fishing plantation located in northern Leon County, Florida, United States on Lake Iamonia.From the 1830s through 1866 the land was part of the cotton plantation known as Water Oak Plantation owned by Richard Bradford....
to the east - Avayalla Plantation to the south
Fossil discovery
In 1916 during a well digging at Luna Plantation, equipment hit a bone layer from the MioceneMiocene
The Miocene is a geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about . The Miocene was named by Sir Charles Lyell. Its name comes from the Greek words and and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern sea invertebrates than the Pliocene. The Miocene follows the Oligocene...
period of some containing several fossils. Skeletal remains found were of ancient horse
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
s, camels, rhinoceros
Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros , also known as rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia....
, bear-dogs, and ancient dog
Dog
The domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...
-like ancestors of the dogs of today. The fossil site was later abandoned due to poisonous gases. This site became known as the Griscom Plantation site.