Ocmulgee Creek Farm
Dallas County, Alabama⁞450± ACRES
A Generational Family Estate in the Heart of the Alabama Blackbelt! Where History, Luxury and Land Stewardship Converge.
- 450+/- Acre Generational Family Estate in the Heart of the Alabama Blackbelt
- Premier Location within 1.5 hours of Birmingham, 1 hour to Tuscaloosa, 3 hours to Mobile
- Diverse habitat with 91 acres of Pecan Orchards, 98 acres of Pine Hardwood, 126 acres of Hardwood along the creek, and 98 acres of pasture.
- Improved pasture for cattle including irrigation, fencing, cattle gaps, & more
- Beautiful & diverse land with abundant water resources
- Neary 2 miles of frontage along Ocmulgee Creek & 1.2 miles on Mitchell Creek
- 3 deep wells & 2 active artesian wells
- 1 acre stocked pond with bass and bream
- Exceptional hunting for Deer, Turkey, Dove, and easily capable of managing habitat for quail
- 9810+/- SF modern plantation style primary residence, built in 2001, and sits on a knoll overlooking the farm.
- Custom wood finishes throughout such as western red cedar, Brazilian Ipe, Heart Cypress, Heart pine recovered from old warehouse beams & river recovered sunken logs.
- 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2 half baths, Library, Study, Sunroom, Art Studio, Dark Room, 2 car garage, fire suppression system, mature landscaping, & fenced gardens.
- Over ¾ mile private drive into the property leading to the primary residence
- (2) Horse barns with paddocks, office, & bathroom
- Manager's house, (2) guest/tenant houses
- 9,000+/- SF Farm Shop, partially enclosed & conditioned
- 10,000+/- SF Hay Barn
- 6,000+/- SF Equipment Pole Barn
- 3,600+/- SF Equipment Pole Barn
- Historic Country Store
- Tractor & implements used for regular farm maintenance
- Conservation Easement
- 1,000 Acre adjoining Hunting Lease Available to a Buyer by Negotiation
Acre for Acre, One of the most beautiful Properties in Alabama!
525 Additional Acres Available to Purchase!
This remarkable 450-acre estate is a testament to the enduring legacy of a multi-generation Alabama steward of the land and conservationist who had a successful career in the Forest Products Industry. In 1977, he purchased the farm from his father, acquired more timberland over the next 4 decades, and in 2000 retired to the family farm in Dallas County.
Ocmulgee Creek Farm is a sprawling country estate, nestled on the Dallas County - Perry County line, in the heart of the Alabama Black Belt. It's a place with a profound sense of history and tradition. It's a place where you can instantly feel that you're somewhere truly special. The property consists of beautiful meandering pastures, mature pecan groves, old growth professionally managed pine and hardwood timber, and approximately 2 miles of frontage along Ocmulgee & Mitchell Creek, a priceless recreational resource & year-round water supply. A conservation easement exists to ensure a century old passion for the land is passed on to future generations.
The centerpiece of Ocmulgee Farm lies at the end of a long scenic drive into the property with terrific views to the East and West far out of sight and sound from public roads. The modern plantation-style primary residence, built in 2001, blends elements of an English country house with the grand plantation style houses of the US South. Given the owner's career in the Forest Products industry, one goal was to highlight exquisite custom wood finishes throughout the house. Western Red Cedar from British Columbia was used for siding and Brazilian Ipe was used for the porch and decking. Heart pine flooring, recovered from old warehouse beams and river recovered sunken logs were used for flooring and the grand staircase, the breakfast room ceiling, and the library. Heart Cypress was used in the kitchen, breakfast room, office and third floor library. The home is 9,800+/- sf and boasts four suite-style bedrooms, a master bedroom on the ground floor, as well as an art studio, a dark room, extensive covered porches, fire suppression system, mature landscaping & fenced gardens. It's truly an architectural masterpiece with every detail carefully considered in the construction of such quality craftsmanship and provides a timeless appeal for years to come!
" With today's replacement cost of the primary residence well exceeding $400 per square foot, it would be Impossible to Duplicate this Property for this Price! " - Tim James
Behind the primary residence is 6 acres of fenced pasture and a well-appointed horse barn with concrete floors & a tack room. Other improvements include a cattle barn, extensive equipment barns and storage buildings with concrete flooring and roll up doors, large hay barns, irrigated pastures, beautiful fencing, 3 tenant houses, and a historic country store. The improvements are in excellent condition with minimal deferred maintenance. The water resources at Ocmulgee Creek Farm are excellent - in addition to the year around creeks, the property has 3 deep wells and 2 active artesian wells with excellent water. In fact, the water quality is so good, one artesian well available to the public and located along the public road draws people from miles away coming to fill up jugs for drinking water.
Ocmulgee Creek Farm offers such a diverse range of opportunities for a new landowner. The deer & turkey hunting in the area is known to be some of the best in the state and the property could easily be managed to hunt quail. Cattle have been grazed on the farm for years and with numerous barns and fenced pastures, and could be easily expanded, further attributing to the sustainability of the farm. In addition to the cattle, equestrian enthusiast would have most everything they would need for an exceptional equestrian operation. Additionally, significant income could be realized through commercial operation of the 91 acres of mature pecan orchards on the property. Ocmulgee Creek Farm has everything one could want who dreams of a self sustained lifestyle with rich soils for growing timber, cattle, or crops, an abundant water supply, great wildlife, significant utility infrastructure, luxurious amenities and more.
When Jon Kohler trademarked the term "Social Storm Properties", Ocmulgee Creek Farm is exactly what he was talking about. Learn more about Social Storm Properties here.
Rarely will you find a property that blends together the history & beauty of a generational working farm with tasteful luxury upgrades of today. Ocmulgee Creek Farm has been in the same family since the great depression and is now being offered for sale for the first time in nearly a century. A dream property for a family looking to start their own legacy, surrounded by the natural beauty and tradition of the Alabama blackbelt. Come experience God's perfect creation right here at Ocmulgee Creek Farm.
"You can search long and hard in the Southeast to find something like this for $4,695,000, which is $2800 per acre for the Land Component plus all the Improvements discounted 44% off Replacement Cost! " - Tim James
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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.