Woodfield Spring Plantation was a large quail hunting plantation

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:...

 in northern 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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Woodfield Springs was owned by Gilbert W. Humphrey, an executive with the M.A. Hanna Company of Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

 serving as president of the company in 1960 and chairman of the board in 1961. Humphrey's father also was an executive with Hanna and U.S. Secretary of the Tresaury. Mr. Humphrey's father in law was Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr., owner of 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....

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Woodfield Springs was located between Centerville Road and Miccosukee Road and covered an area of 4000 acres (16.2 km²).

Adjacent plantations:

• 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....
  
   western section on the south.
• 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...
  
   to the west

Tragedy

On October 5, 1967, Astronaut Clifton C. Williams

Clifton Williams

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 died instantly when his T-38 Talon

T-38 Talon

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crashed in a remote part of Woodfield Springs.