Fort Pierce
Baldwin County, Alabama⁞4300± ACRES
Historic 4,300 Acre Legacy Property with World Class Hunting & Fishing, Managed Timberlands, & Highly Desirable Social Storm Attributes!
- 4,300+/- acres Historic Recreational Hunting Property in Baldwin County, AL
- Largest Recreational Hunting Property on the Market in the State of Alabama
- Premier Location within 40 minutes to Mobile, 1 hour to Pensacola, 3 hours to New Orleans
- Incredibly Game Rich Property with a Rare Combination of Pristine Bottomland Hardwoods & Diverse Pine Uplands
- Breathtaking 1700+/- acres of Bottomland Hardwoods & 2600+/- acres of diverse Pine Uplands
- Abundant Water with Frontage on the Alabama River, Majors Creek, Oxbow Lakes, & manmade pond
- Above Average Timber Value on a High Quality Recreational Property
- Excellent Deer & Turkey, Duck & Dove, Squirrel, & Potential for Quail
- Great Timber Income Potential with Nearly Every Acre Productively Growing Timber
- 3 Bedroom Lodge with Commercial Kitchen on county water and utility power
- Bath house with multiple showers
- Outdoor Pavilion with Fireplace
- Walk in deer cooler & indoor game cleaning room
- Extensive road networks
- Large destination food plots & Shooting blinds
- High & Low House Skeet Range
- Rifle Range
- Fishing pond with covered dock
- Extremely private with a 1 mile long drive entering the property
- There is Currently no Conservation Easement on the Property
- Ideal for a Corporate Retreat, Legacy Asset, or Social Storm Property
- Located near the Community of Tensaw
- Short 40 minute drive to Mobile with Airstrip & Jetfuel
Fort Pierce is one of most game-rich properties you will find in Alabama! For those with an affinity for the outdoors and exceptional hunting and fishing, Fort Pierce checks every box for every season.
A legacy can live on in memories, stories, and photos, but it’s the land that can truly provide a tangible example of those that came before us. Fort Pierce as it exists today is one of the best large legacy properties in the Southeast.
At 4,300 acres, this is the largest recreational hunting property on the market in the State of Alabama. It boasts incredible diversity, fertile soils, miles of river frontage, flowing creeks, pristine bottomland hardwoods, diverse pine timber, and unmatched wildlife.
The history here goes beyond the current family, named for a small stockade built by the Pierce brothers in the 1700’s. It was a settler’s fort on the Alabama River that was abandoned after the Massacre at Fort Mims during the Creek Indian War. Fort Pierce was home to a sawmill, mercantile, and Alabama’s very first public school.
While the history here is fascinating, the modern-day Fort Pierce is equally as interesting. Fort Pierce was previously owned by Scott Paper Company and used as a corporate treat. Fort Pierce was referred to as a ‘playground’ to one of Scott Paper Companies long time employees, Tom Kelly. Spending most of his work life in the woods as a forester, Mr. Kelly is best known for telling stories about turkey hunting and his book, “Tenth Legion”. He is a legend in the turkey hunting world and was said to be very fond of Fort Pierce and the mornings he spent chasing turkeys here. It’s said that turkeys were never over hunted at Fort Pierce, self-imposing strict limits on the number of turkeys harvested to improve turkey populations. Decades later, its not uncommon to hear 10-12 gobbling turkeys on a good morning.
The diversity here is a rare find when you consider everything this legacy property has to offer. Over 1700+/- acres of pristine hardwood bottoms that transition into 2600+/- acres of highly productive uplands. To have sizable acreage of both bottomlands and uplands is not only rare but a tremendous advantage for managing wildlife and habitat.
The stands of pine timber are diverse, ranging between young pre-merch stands to old mature stands creating sustainable current and future income for years to come. The hardwood bottoms are simply breathtaking with cypress and tupelo filled oxbow lakes, miles of frontage along the Alabama River and tributaries, established food plots to help supplement the large numbers of mast producing trees, a concrete boat ramp, and an extensive road network. It’s truly an outdoorsman’s playground, with year around hunting & fishing opportunities that are second to none. The deer, turkey, and duck hunting is excellent with low hunting pressure and strict deer management. It’s not uncommon to either see or harvest a 125-135” deer with the largest being in the 150” class range.
The fishing in the oxbow lakes and pond can be excellent with unlimited fishing & boating opportunities up and down the Alabama & Tombigbee Rivers.
Fort Pierce is in the highly desirable area of North Baldwin County near the community of Tensaw. The property sits just 7 river miles north of confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee River and approximately 40 miles north of Mobile Bay. The property is easily accessible just 14 miles north from Interstate 65 with road frontage along CR 59. A well-maintained gravel road leads you into the property for 1 mile where you find a 3-bedroom lodge, pavilion with a fireplace, and a separate bath house. Other improvements include a walk-in cooler and game cleaning station, tractor shed, miles of internal roads, stands, feeders, and more.
Fort Pierce and its Social Storm Property Attributes are Highly Ranked. This Social Storm property belongs to a unique asset class with key property attributes that investors gravitate to for safety in bad times and buy for a recreation reward in good times.
For those with an affinity for the outdoors and exceptional hunting and fishing, Fort Pierce checks every box for every season. As a sustainable investment, a hard asset hedge, and a Social Storm Property, Fort Pierce is unmatched. Truly a legacy property & undoubtedly an opportunity of a lifetime.
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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.