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Luna Plantation
Luna Plantation was a quail hunting plantation located in northeastern Leon County, Florida, United States established by Lloyd C. Griscom. Lloyd C. Griscom was the son of Clement A. Griscom from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Clement was a shipping magnate, President of the Red Star Line and American Line. Almost four years after the death of Clement A. Griscom, on October 19, 1916 Horseshoe Plantation was divided up and part sold. Lloyd C. Griscom, Clement's son received on the west side naming it Luna Plantation while his sister Frances C. Griscom, a sportswoman, received of the old plantation to the east and named it Water Oak Plantation. Frances Griscom won the 1900 United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship. Adjacent plantations Adjacent plantations 1947: * Water Oak Plantation to the east *Orchard Pond Plantation to the south *Ayavalla Plantation to the south Lloyd C. Griscom purchased the Tallahassee Democrat in 1929 owning it until his death in 1958. His widow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luna Plantation 1947
Luna commonly refers to: * Earth's Moon, named "Luna" in Latin * Luna (goddess), the ancient Roman personification of the Moon Luna may also refer to: Places Philippines * Luna, Apayao * Luna, Isabela * Luna, La Union * Luna, San Jose Romania * Luna, Negrești-Oaș town, Satu Mare County * Luna, Cluj * Luna de Jos, Dăbâca Commune, Cluj County * Luna de Sus, Florești, Cluj * Luna River United States * Luna, Arkansas * Luna, Missouri * Luna, Minnesota * Luna, New Mexico * Luna County, New Mexico * Luna Island, in Niagara Falls, New York * Luna Lake (Arizona), a natural body of water * Luna Pier, Michigan, a city Other places * Luna (Etruria), a city in ancient Etruria (now Italy) destroyed by the Arabs in 1016 * Luna, Aragon, Spain * Luna, Rajasthan, India * Luna forest, on the north bank of the Danube, according to Ptolemy * Luna Peak (other) * Roverè della Luna, a commune in Italy * Luna, former name of Louny, a town in the Czech Republic Arts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Oak Plantation
Water Oak Plantation was a small cotton plantation of located in northern Leon County, Florida, United States established by Richard Bradford. Location Water Oak was located in the general area of Bradfordville. Adjacent plantations: *Pine Hill Plantation to the east *Walnut Hill Plantation, Water Oak Plantation being very close to Walnut Hill Plantation specifics The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Water Oak Plantation had the following: * Improved Land: * Unimproved Land: * Cash value of plantation: $18,400 * Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1500 * Cash value of farm animals: $3,500 * Number of slaves: 65 *Bushels of corn: 2500 *Bales of cotton: 130 The founder Richard Henry Bradford born November 15, 1800, in Enfield, North Carolina. The Bradford brothers took turns hosting July 4 celebrations with massive barbecues for their slaves. When it was Richard's turn to host the celebration he included fishing parties on Lake Iamonia. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griscom Plantation Site
Notable people with the surname Griscom include: * Betsy Ross, probably apocryphal designer of the American flag, born Elizabeth Phoebe Griscom * Clement Griscom, American shipping magnate, father of Frances C. Griscom * Deborah Griscom Passmore, American botanical illustrator * Frances C. Griscom, American amateur golfer, daughter of Clement Griscom * John Griscom, American educator * Ludlow Griscom, American ornithologist * Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, American diplomat * Mary Wade Griscom, American physician and medical school professor * Nina Griscom, American model, television host, designer, columnist and businesswoman * Tom Griscom Thomas Cecil Griscom (born 1949) served as Director of White House Communications under President Ronald Reagan, was a top aide and adviser for a decade to U.S. Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, and was the executive editor and publisher of the ..., American newspaper editor * William Woodnut Griscom, American electrical engineer and founder o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bear Dog
Amphicyonidae is an extinct family of terrestrial carnivorans belonging to the suborder Caniformia. They first appeared in North America in the middle Eocene (around 45 mya), spread to Europe by the late Eocene (35 mya), and appear in Asia, and Africa by the early Miocene (23 mya). They had largely disappeared worldwide by the late Miocene (8 mya), with the latest recorded species at the end of the Miocene in Pakistan. They were among the first carnivorans to evolve large body size. Later in their history, they came into competition with hesperocyonine and borophagine canids. As dogs evolved similar body sizes and cranial and dental adaptations, the rise of these groups may have led to their extinction. Amphicyonids are often colloquially referred to as "bear-dogs". Taxonomy The family was erected by Haeckel (1886) lso attributed to Trouessart (1885) Their exact position has long been disputed. Some early paleontologists defined them as members of the family Canidae, but th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhinoceros
A rhinoceros (; ; ), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant taxon, extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family (biology), family Rhinocerotidae. (It can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea.) Two of the extant species are native to Africa, and three to South Asia, South and Southeast Asia. Rhinoceroses are some of the largest remaining megafauna: all weigh at least one tonne in adulthood. They have a herbivore, herbivorous diet, small brains (400–600 g) for mammals of their size, one or two horns, and a thick (1.5–5 cm), protective skin formed from layers of collagen positioned in a crystal structure, lattice structure. They generally eat leafy material, although their ability to ferment food in their colon (anatomy), hindgut allows them to subsist on more fibrous plant matter when necessary. Unlike other perissodactyls, the two African species of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camel
A camel (from: la, camelus and grc-gre, κάμηλος (''kamēlos'') from Hebrew or Phoenician: גָמָל ''gāmāl''.) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus ''Camelus'' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provide food ( milk and meat) and textiles (fiber and felt from hair). Camels are working animals especially suited to their desert habitat and are a vital means of transport for passengers and cargo. There are three surviving species of camel. The one-humped dromedary makes up 94% of the world's camel population, and the two-humped Bactrian camel makes up 6%. The Wild Bactrian camel is a separate species and is now critically endangered. The word ''camel'' is also used informally in a wider sense, where the more correct term is "camelid", to include all seven species of the family Camelidae: the true camels (the above three species), along with the "New World" camelids: the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horse
The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, '' Eohippus'', into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BCE, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BCE. Horses in the subspecies ''caballus'' are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior. Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miocene
The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates than the Pliocene has. The Miocene is preceded by the Oligocene and is followed by the Pliocene. As Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the climate slowly cooled towards a series of ice ages. The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regionally defined boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene Epoch. During the Early Miocene, the Arabian Peninsula collided with Eurasia, severing the connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, and allowing a faunal interchange to occur between Eurasia and Africa, including the dispersal of proboscideans into Eurasia. During the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinhega Lodge
Kinhega 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. Horseshoe Plantation In 1901, Clement A. Griscom, a businessman and shipping magnate from Philadelphia whose family gained much wealth after the American Civil War with the American Line and Red Star Line purchased and plantation house in the horseshoe bend of Lake Iamonia for $5300 (~$ in ) from R. E. Lester, the son of Capt. William Lester of Oaklawn Plantation. From 1902 through 1903 Griscom purchased land from heirs of Burgesstown Plantation, the Whitehead family, and many other owners retaining the name of Horseshoe Plantation. The plantation eventually was more than in size with over of woodland drives. When Clement A. Griscom died on October 19, 1916, Horseshoe Plantation was divided up and part sold. Lloyd C. Griscom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallahassee Democrat
The ''Tallahassee Democrat'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper. It covers the area centered on Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida, as well as adjacent Gadsden County, Jefferson County, and Wakulla County. The newspaper is owned by Gannett Co., Inc., which also owns the ''Pensacola News Journal'', the '' Fort Myers News-Press'', and '' Florida Today'', along with many other news outlets. Knight Newspapers bought the ''Tallahassee Democrat'' in 1965. The ''Democrat'' was acquired by Gannett in August 2005 in a newspaper swap with Knight Ridder. History The first issue of the ''Weekly True Democrat'' was published March 3, 1905. Founder, editor and publisher John G. Collins, a career printer and journalist, said the name came from the paper's promised dedication to "the true and tried principles of Old Time Democracy." Three years later, in 1908, Collins contracted influenza and sold the newspaper to Milton Asbury Smith, an Alabama newspaperman and entrepreneur. Smith, an en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayavalla Plantation
Ayavalla Plantation was a quail hunting plantation located in northwest Leon County, Florida, established by John Henry Howard Phipps, son of John Shaffer Phipps of the prominent Phipps family. Ayavalla was the Indian word used by Ellen Call Long for Lake Jackson. Long was the previous resident of nearby Orchard Pond Plantation and daughter of Governor Richard Keith Call. Upon John Shaffer Phipps' death in 1958, Orchard Pond Plantation and were passed on to grandson Colin Phipps, and grandson John E. Phipps was given on Ox Bottom Road.Paisley, Clifton; ''From Cotton To Quail'', University of Florida Press, c1968, pp. 83-84. Adjacent plantations: * Luna Plantation to the north * Meridian Plantation to the east Ayavalla and the neighboring property of Elinor Klapp-Phipps Park host part of the Red Hills Horse Trials The Red Hills Horse Trials is held in Tallahassee, in the U.S. state of Florida and is one of the equestrian world's top events. It is an annual major eventing c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchard Pond Plantation
Orchard Pond Plantation was a large cotton plantation originally of 8754 acres, (35½ km2) developed and owned in the 19th century by Richard Keith Call, attorney, planter and future Territorial Governor, in what is now northwestern Leon County, Florida, United States. In 1860 he owned 118 slaves to work the 1300 acres of improved land. It was one of two plantations which Call owned in Leon County. His descendants owned these properties into the 20th century. Location The exact boundaries of Orchard Pond Plantation are not available. Orchard Pond lay between Lake Jackson and the Ochlockonee River to the west. The land is bisected east to west by Orchard Pond Road, a rural county dirt road, that in 2016 was replaced by the Orchard Pond Parkway. Plantation specifics The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Orchard Pond Plantation had the following: * Improved Land: 1300 acres (5 km²) * Unimproved Land: 2544 acres (10 km²) * Cash value of plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
