Spring Creek Plantation
Early County, Georgia⁞5,519± ACRES
Properties of this caliber at this scale in Southwest Georgia rarely become available.
- 5,519± acre Legacy Sporting Estate™, Early County, Georgia
- 200± private Spring-fed lake
- 1,800± acres intensively managed wild bobwhite quail habitat - additional 2,000± acres could be converted
- 1,500± acres trophy whitetail deer woods
- 1,060± acres irrigated farmland (income-producing)
- 25± acre floodable duck pond for waterfowl
- 8.5 sq miles managed for trophy whitetail deer
- 2 miles on both sides of Spring Creek
- 60± acre active rock mine (substantial revenue stream) - 85-265 estimated million tons of limerock
- Brand new 5,000± sq ft world-class, lakefront lodge
- Brand new carriage house with guest suite
- Lakehouse fully remodeled
- 2 overflow homes: Gibbs House & Arlington House
- All homes fully furnished and turn-key
- Shop & office
- $1M+ in equipment included
- Less than 10 minutes to 5,000 ft jet strip
- Adjacent to Kolomoki Farms and White Oak Pastures (Will Harris)
- Exceptional Social Storm® property — secure, resilient, income-generating
A World Class Legacy Sporting Estate™
One Property. Five Extraordinary Futures.
There are properties that check boxes. Then there are places that define what a sporting estate can be.
This is not a seasonal hunting property. The lake, the lodge, the guest houses, and the infrastructure make Spring Creek a year-round destination — the kind of place families come back to in every season and lifelong memories made.
This property is close, very close, but not 100% finished. The landstewards who have built the great sporting legacies of the South — Cousins, McKenzie, Virgil Williams — understood one thing. You act before the story is finished, not after. Spring Creek is still becoming. That is precisely why this is the moment.
At $44,000,000 this property is offered with the base land and timber component at approximately $6,000 per acre. Three major comparable sales in southwest Georgia have already closed in 2026 near $10,000 per acre for land and timber alone — each with fewer amenities and no income stream. The gap between those numbers is where the opportunity lives.
What makes Spring Creek different isn’t any single feature. It’s the combination — and the timing. The trophy deer program is crossing its inflection point this season in one of the most documented B&C producing areas in America. The quail translocation program is showing a 180% documented population increase. The lake has every natural attribute to support a world-class bass fishery — 200-acre spring-fed, gin clear lake; naturally occurring minerals most managed lakes have to add, and room to build a forage program that changes what trophy bass fishing looks like on a private property. The irrigated farmland carries an arbitrage because if converted to recreation it’s immediately worth more! And in an uncertain world, a property this self-sufficient — one that feeds itself, waters itself, and operates with two full-time employees and minimal oversight — doesn’t just hold value. It becomes more valuable when everything around it doesn’t. Spring Creek scores among the highest we have ever recorded on the Social Storm® index — the benchmark for properties that perform in both good times and uncertain ones.
We’ve identified five distinct ownership visions for this property — B&C trophy deer, premier wild quail plantation, family recreational legacy, Social Storm® sanctuary, and a division model that creates immediate equity. Each has a compelling financial case. Each is shaped around a different buyer. One of them will surprise you.
“It’s been a long time since an opportunity to improve the land, generate wealth, and truly create something no one else has.” — Jon Kohler
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From murky farm ponds to pristine glacier-cut lakes and everything in between, Knox Daniels’ expertise stems from a lifelong fascination of water and the creatures that live in and around it. He recognizes and helps clients appreciate the value water features bring to a property. “My goal is to help buyers realize and sellers maximize the value different water bodies bring to a property, not only in a recreational sense, but also for social storm reasons.” After extensively traveling the country for collegiate BASS fishing tournaments, Knox graduated and worked for the Southeast’s finest fisheries and wildlife biologist, Greg Grimes. With Grimes’ company, AES, Knox managed many of the southeast’s finest private lake estate/impoundment properties, and learned the intricacies of upscale property management. Learning from Greg and other biologists, Knox honed in on the specific conditions and habitat needed for optimal gamefish growth in private lakes. He has also worked as a property manager on several thousand acres and for a commercial developer, facilitating the dirt work and builds of several apartment complexes, but his true passion has always been in the outdoors. “I’ve always had an insatiable fascination with ponds/lakes and am grateful to be able to help to place clients on the properties of their dreams and make their personal fisheries/wildlife goals reality with JKA.” – Knox Daniels
Jason has been assisting landowners for the last 28 years in Georgia and South Carolina obtain achievements the owners did not realize were possible. His degree in Biology from Georgia Southern stemmed from the desire to know how things in nature work. His plantation roots began at just 16 years old outside of Albany, GA and the last 20 years were spent in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His entire career has been spent developing a global approach to plantation management. That plan included sales. Sales is in Jason’s blood- his mom had a 45-year career as a real estate broker. After college, he chose to pursue his passion of making properties great. In 2011, Jason sold his first plantation. Since then, he has assisted buyers and sellers with over $20 million in sales while most of that time working as a full-time General Manager of a large Lowcountry plantation. Today, he is committed to using his unique skill set and experience to guide landowners through the many challenges of plantation ownership.
Bruce Ratliff is a retired elected official (Property Appraiser Taylor County). Bruce brings years of experience in ad valorem tax knowledge. His property tax background gives JKA Associates & clients a unique insight into the complicated tax process. Bruce held several positions in the Florida Association of Property Appraisers, including member of the Board of Directors, President, Vice-President and Secretary, and served on the Agricultural & Legislative Committees for the Association. The real estate business has been part of Bruce’s life since childhood. His mother, Shirley Ratliff owned Professional Realty of Perry, Florida and his father, Buster owned Ratliff Land Surveying which Bruce was General Manager of before his political career.
Hailing from a long line of outdoorsmen, Tim learned a great deal from his father and grandfather. He saw first-hand what it means to be a good land steward. He believes land is so much more than a place to hunt, fish, and grow timber or crops. “It’s an identity, a resting place, a safe haven and a way of life, said Tim.” Tim’s family ties to Alabama run deep. During his grandfather’s first term, Governor James was responsible for signing into law Alabama’s first state duck stamp which helped to ensure funding for the procurement, development, and preservation of wetlands for migratory waterfowl habitat. He also established Alabama’s lifetime hunting license, so it is no surprise that Tim is an avid outdoorsman with a keen eye as to how best to improve habitat for the greater good of its wildlife.
With Madison County roots, Lori grew up on her family farm at Pettis Springs along the historic Aucilla River. A love of the land was instilled in Lori very early on by her father who was a local farmer. Lori understands the importance of good land stewardship and has witnessed first-hand how her own father, a former 2-term member of the Florida House of Representatives whose district encompassed many rural counties of the Red Hills Plantation Region, with a little bit of sweat equity, so lovingly worked their own family land. These are core values she carries with her today, and nothing gives her more personal satisfaction than to represent some of the south’s best land stewards.
Cole’s dedication to land management lies in his family roots. As a fourth-generation timber expert, Cole’s earliest memories were spent with his father managing timber investments. With a degree in Food Resource Economics from the University of Florida, Cole is the epitome of an up-and-coming leader. He grew up with a hands-on approach to learning land management and conservation and has spent the last 15 years learning every angle of the real estate and forest industry. Cole is a member of the Florida Forestry Association, Red Hills Quail Forever, Southeastern Wood Producers Association and he uses this platform as an advocate for landowners and their land investments. His family has dedicated the past 60 years to providing landowners in North Florida and South Georgia with professional land management services focused on improving and protecting one’s forestland and wildlife investment. In fact, their family business, M.A. Rigoni, Inc., was one of the first to introduce whole tree chipping to the Red Hills Region.
As a landowner of his own family farm, Lick Skillet, along with family land that has been passed down and enjoyed together at Keaton Beach for 40 years, Jon knows what it means to be a steward of the last best places. As a third-generation land broker with more than 30 years of experience in advising landowners in this niche, Jon is known for his innate ability to harvest a land’s unique intrinsic value. Touting several notable sales under his belt, Jon personally closed Rock Creek/Molpus – 124,000 acres of premium timberland at $142,000,000 – which was known as the largest timberland land sale in the Southeast for eight years running. He is a co-founding member of LandLeader and achieved the real estate industry’s highest honor, “2022 National Broker of the Year – Recreational Land Sales,” by the Realtors® Land Institute.