Norias Plantation is a small quail hunting plantation

Quail hunting plantation

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 located north of Lake Miccosukee

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 in northeastern Leon County

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, Florida

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, United States

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The land for Norias was sold by Colonel Lewis S. Thompson of Sunny Hill Plantation

Sunny Hill Plantation

Sunny Hill Plantation was a large hunting plantation in northern Leon County, Florida.- Plantation :Sunny Hill Plantation was established by Lewis S. Thompson in 1913, and was created from the former W. G. Ponder Plantation...

 to Walter E. Edge, Governor of New Jersey

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 and his hunting companion and longtime friend, Walter C. Teagle

Walter C. Teagle

Walter Clark Teagle , was responsible for leading Standard Oil to the forefront of the oil industry and significantly expanding the company's presence in the petrochemical field.-Biography:...

, Chairman of The Board of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey just after World War I

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. The plantation was named for a Missouri Pacific Railroad

Missouri Pacific Railroad

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 stop in Texas

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 where Edge and Teagle had previously hunted. After the purchase, Norias' size swelled to a total of 18395 acres (74.4 km²).

In 1937, Gov. Edge gave up his partnership in Norias and purchased Sunny Hill Plantation after the death of Lewis Thompson. In 1962, Walter Teagle died and a New York City advertising executive by the name of C.L. Fitzgerald purchased most of Norias with Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr.

Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr.

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, an executive with the M. A. Hanna Company

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purchasing several acres.