Chadwick Farm
St Clair County, Alabama⁞1827± ACRES
Perhaps the Perfect Culmination of Fine Land & Fine Architecture! Meticulously Designed around Sharing the Outdoor Experience with Others!
- 1827+/- acres Turn-key Established Recreational Property, St Clair County, Alabama
- Located 45 minutes to Birmingham, 2 hours to Atlanta, and 1 hour 40 minutes to Huntsville
- Custom 2,000 SF Main Lodge, 3 bedroom/2.5-bathroom, built in 2008 with reclaimed heart pine wide plank floors, vaulted ceilings, custom appliances, wood burning fireplace, covered porches and double carport
- Custom 2,200 SF Party Barn, built in 2008 with reclaimed 18” heart pine flooring, vaulted ceilings with reclaimed wood, 2nd floor apartment with living room, bedroom and bathroom
- Detached bathhouse with 4 toilet stalls, common sink area with matching exterior to the party barn
- 24’x36’ pavilion with timber post construction and a flagstone base
- Pole Barn – 1181 SF enclosed and 2250 SF canopy, built in 2012 with concrete slab. Includes kennel area, laundry room, tool and equipment storage
- Dog Trot Log Cabin – 576 SF with 900 SF of covered porches
- 10.5 miles of maintained interior road system
- 1.2 miles of 4 baton wood fence
- Custom Entrances with electric Gates
- 2 stocked lakes managed by Southeastern Pond, 10 acres and 8.5 acres
- 150+/- acres Managed Quail woods
- Exceptional Topography with 560’ in elevation changes with the highest point being 1120’
- Extremely manicured & managed for quail, deer, turkey
- Frontage along Permeter Creek
- Numerous wildlife food plots with shooting houses, and thousands of oak trees planted throughout
- Bee Hive boxes producing home grown honey
- Perfectly suited for a family get-away, corporate retreats, or a equity membership structure
- No Conservation Easement is in place
- Turn-key with furnishings, tractors, implements, & more
Sweet Home Alabama showcasing Luxury, High Quality Outdoor Experiences, and Unmistakable Beauty!
Chadwick Farm is a breathtaking 1827+/- acre established quail & sporting property with perfectly manicured grounds, beautiful lakes, incredible topography, and some of the finest amenities found on any sporting property today. Located just 45 miles to Birmingham and 2 hours to Atlanta, the property is very convenient for friends and family to gather and enjoy the untamed adventure this turn-key property offers.
Chadwick Farm lies in the southernmost foothills of the Appalachian Mountains with 700’ of elevation change that provides incredible views at every turn. The property has dramatic rolling topography and diverse habitat from the old growth quail woods, old growth hardwoods, merchantable and pre-merchantable plantation pines, open fields, beautiful lakes, creeks, and more. The diversity of timber offers a new owner supreme flexibility in the management of timber and wildlife habitat with a future income stream.
Approximately 150 acres of quail woods have been meticulously managed with prescribed fire, equipped with 3 call back houses, and are currently holding a respectable number of wild quail. A pre-season release is done in the fall and again in the spring, as well as supplementing with new birds the day of the hunt. A great outlet for wing shooters to have a great half day or full days hunt.
The property has excellent water resources with 2 lakes ranging in size between 8-10 acres and 2 small ponds as well as frontage along Permeter Creek. The lakes have been strictly managed by Southeastern Pond throughout the year for fertilization and lime as well as bait fish. An electroshock is performed annually to get a detailed report that drives future management decisions. Trout are released in one lake in the fall as an additional enhancement to the fishing experience. These water resources are truly trophy sport fishing quality.
An extensive road network provides access to most of the property with numerous wildlife food plots strategically placed throughout with nice shooting houses and feeders. The deer and turkey hunting is excellent; the diverse landscape provides opportunities for outdoorsman of any kind. Not to mention combination quail hunts in the morning & deer in the evening.
The amenities here are truly exceptional with every detail carefully considered and no expense spared. The Lodge sits along a ridge with expansive views of beautiful quail woods. Built in 2008, it is 2,000 +/- square feet with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms and a 2-car carport. Constructed from reclaimed heart pine timbers and old barnwood heart pine on the floors, every detail of the lodge is first class with high-end appliances and finishes throughout. A covered front porch looks down at a beautiful quail cut pine stand where you can listen to wild quail whistles in the distance. Consistent with the rest, the furniture and interior design throughout is exceptional.
A short UTV ride from the main lodge takes you down an oak lined drive alongside a beautiful 8.5 acre lake as you approach the “party barn”. Like the main lodge, the “party barn” was also constructed from reclaimed barnwood timbers and heart pine floors and ceilings with mushroom board from Pennsylvania on the exterior. What looks like a picture out of Garden and Gun magazine or architectural digest, the “party barn” has an open floorplan with vaulted ceilings and exposed wood beams, a giant exterior sliding barn door, a full-size bar, large wood burning fireplace, and a full-size kitchen with upscale appliances. A picture-perfect place to watch football in the fall or host a large party. Just outside of the “party barn” is a separate bathhouse with 4 stalls and a farmhouse sink of equal quality construction. A firepit and a pavilion are on each side of the “party barn” with a fenced garden just beyond the firepit. Beautiful & perfectly manicured landscape surrounds the flagstone porches with a covered dining area overlooking the grounds.
Additional improvements custom rock columned entrances and walls as well as a 19th century dog trot log cabin constructed from chestnut and red oak that was relocated to the property from West Virginia. The dogtrot cabin sits at the highest elevation on the property with unobstructed breathtaking views for tens of miles. Truly a feeling of raw Appalachia you get when on top of the mountain, and a sense of place and calming feeling that you get when you’re here.
This turnkey recreational property just 45 minutes from Birmingham offers it all. With it’s thoughtful design and architectural digest quality construction to its maintained lakes and fisheries, to the ongoing management of the wildlife and habitat, this property is sure to attract a wide range of buyers. Don’t miss out on this chance to own a true Alabama gem!
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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.
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
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.
Prior to joining Jon Kohler & Associates, Walter Hatchett served for 30 years as a land manager to several of the south’s most esteemed properties, including Rock Creek. As a former property manager himself, and a consistently ranked “Top Sales Producer” nationwide and achieved “APEX Top 20 Land Broker” multiple times, Walter has a keen eye for the best in habitat management.
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.
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.
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.