Ring Oak Plantation
Coordinates: 30°34′58.1″N 84°0′23.6″W / 30.582806°N 84.006556°W
Ring Oak Plantation is a large quail hunting plantation located in northeast Leon County, Florida.
Ring Oak originally was the land of antebellum cotton plantations Blakely Plantation and Ingleside Plantation.
Prior to it having a name, this 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) property began as a venture sometimes referred to as the Ireland-Ingalls ownership. This was a joint business/leisure concern between David S. Ingalls and Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr. Ingalls was a director of Pan Am World Airways and publisher of Cincinnati Times-Star. Ireland was an executive with M.A. Hanna Company, a coal company. By 1947 Ring Oak was established as a separate plantation and was owned by David S. and Louise Ingalls.
Ring Oak had its own private landing strip making it possible for David Ingalls, an accomplished pilot, to leave Cleveland, Ohio on a Saturday and arrive for the opening of dove hunting season. The landing strip is there today. The name Ring Oak refers to a circular cut made around the live oak trees on the plantation and it's suggested that these rings were the work of local Native Americans and forced the tree to die so that canoes could be made. Many trees survived, scabbing over and creating a noticeable ring.
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