Foshalee Plantation
Foshalee Plantation was a large quail hunting plantation located in northern Leon County, Florida, United States. History 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. During the antebellum years the land was owned by John Miller and totaled . During the 1890s, the very wealthy Hanna family, owners of the M. A. Hanna Company, had been visiting Thomasville, Georgia regularly like many northern wealthy people. During the latter 1890s, the Hannas' crossed the Florida border and began purchasing land in Leon County. Sydney E. Hutchinson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania purchased the land to be called Foshalee Plantation between 1910 and 1914. The land lay west of Foshalee Slough, a swampy lowland extending from the eastern edge of Lake Iamonia. The purchase was for several miles of property to the east of the lake as well as to the north and south. Eventually Hutchinson would extend Foshalee ...
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