Chimney Lake
Troup, Georgia⁞566± ACRES
High-Quality Recreational Property with Private 51+/- Acre Lake, Magnificent Waterfront Home and Beautiful Vistas
- 566+/- Acre Recreational Property in Troup County, Georgia
- 51 +/- acre private, deep water lake exceptionally watered fed by three streams
- 2.5 +/- miles of parklike shoreline on the lake
- 71 +/- acres of hay fields
- Heavily wooded forest with approx. 133 +/- acres not wooded
- 1.5 +/- miles of four flowing streams on property, three of which feed the lake
- The Lake is sitting at about 640 feet in elevation with 150 feet in elevation change
- Great food plots and deer stands
- 6,100 sq. ft. 5 BR/4.5 BA lakefront home
- Two kitchens and two living rooms
- The downstairs floor makes great in-law suite complete with a full kitchen and living room
- All the bedrooms are spacious and most come with a full bath
- Dramatic outdoor lakefront kitchen and outdoor space
- 19' x 14' sq ft of covered outdoor cooking space overlooking the lake
- Walkout wrap-around porches on both levels
- 3 BD / 1 BA rental home
- 1,400+/- sq ft Western-style office home
- Large 3-stall horsebarn with fenced coral
- Equipment barn and haybarn
- 1.85 +/- miles of paved road frontage
- Located 15 min south of Lagrange, 20 minutes from famed Calloway Gardens, just 40 min Columbus (the 2nd largest city in GA)
- One hour from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- 30 minutes to from the lake to the Chattahoochee River
This is a Truly Eye-Catching Property
This property is generational; There is something here to entice folks of all walks of life, all year long with something to do.
Nestled in the rolling hills of West Georgia, this rare 566 +/- acre recreational retreat offers a culmination of outdoor pursuits, sporting adventure, and family living on a private 51-acre deepwater lake. Located in a country setting approximately halfway between two of Georgia's largest cities, this property offers a rural lifestyle but is not too far away from major conveniences. Chimney Lake features a magnificent waterfront home set up for entertaining and with beautiful views of the lake. Deep hardwood forest ravines, four flowing streams, open pastureland, hayfields, wildlife, a lake, and heavily wooded areas offer both an air of seclusion, along with dynamic scenery among the diverse 566 acres. With exceptional roll, the property features nearly 150 ft of elevation change.
“From a habitat standpoint, this property is an open canvas. Because of the vast amount of mature natural timber, water, and open fields, there are a lot of easy things one can do to this property to customize it to one’s own uses. If it were me, I would thin the timber for aesthetics, reintroduce fire and maximize the hay meadows for both wildlife, aesthetics, and some income. I could have this property turned into both one of the most beautiful and most wildlife prolific properties in Georgia and not spend any more money than what would be harvested in the timber. Because of the roll, and soil fertility, I could have a great quail, deer, turkey, and duck property.” - Jon Kohler
The 51-acre private, deep water lake is exceptionally watered, fed by three flowing streams, which total 1.5 miles of streams. Aside from finding a lake of this size for exclusive private recreational use, what also makes this lake so unique is the 2.5 miles of grass, park-like accessible shoreline.
"This lake had one of the most unique features I have seen in 30 years. 100% of the lake frontage is driveable with a golf cart. It’s super kid-friendly. It’s like a private park.” - Jon Kohler
The property has great deer and turkey. Whether kayaking, biking, horseback riding, hunting, fishing, waterskiing, tubing, or sunning along the 51+ acre lake, the recreational pursuits at Chimney Lake are nearly unlimited. This property offers recreation year-round.
“What immediately struck me about this property is it's generational. There is something here to entice folks of all walks of life, all year long with something to do.” - Jon Kohler
“There is more than enough good fishing for the current family. However, given the quality of the water, and the size of this lake, a few simple things could turn this into a world-class trophy bass fishery. It would not take much.” - Jon Kohler
Rich wood tones, grand living spaces, porches-a-plenty, and lakeside views make this spacious, 6,100 +/- square foot lodge something to behold. The lodge is great for family and entertaining and has five bedrooms and four and a half baths and two kitchens (one downstairs and one upstairs). The downstairs floor has its own self-sufficient living quarters and would make for a great in-laws suite complete with a full kitchen and laundry room of its own. The home is inviting from every corner with beautiful curb appeal and bright and plentiful windows. While one could relax by rocking chair on the front porch, by porch swing on the back patio, or simply drink a cup of coffee off the back deck, perhaps the best way to enjoy the views is by the dramatic outdoor lakefront kitchen and outdoor space. Located just steps off the house's indoor kitchen - amplifying ease of entertaining - this outdoor space looks like a scene straight out of HGTV.
“I know in my business, I hear a lot of folks talk about spending time with their grandchildren. The trick isn’t getting the grandkids to come, oftentimes it’s their parents. Sometimes, it’s tough to find room for three generations to spread out with enough space. Not here in this in the 6,100 sq ft home! Not only is there something to do for everyone but in my experience, having that space makes family time more enjoyable.” - Jon Kohler
The property also comes with an old western-style home office on the southeast portion of the property and an additional 3 BD/ 1 BA rental property along the northwest portion of the land. For the equine lover, there is a beautiful horse barn overlooking open pastures, a hay barn, and an equipment barn on site, and the Social Storm aspects here are particularly appealing.
The property is in close proximity to nearby towns and attractions, with downtown LaGrange only 20 min away and featuring numerous charming and quaint eateries. Chimney Hill is just 40 minutes away from Columbus, Georgia's second-largest city, and it is just one hour to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for air travel and is just 20 minutes to the famed Calloway Gardens, and 30 minutes to the Chattahoochee River.
“I like the area coming here from Lick Skillet and Turkey Scratch. This area is just cool - Smoke Rise, Hogg Mountain, Old Chimney, Wood Valley, Pioneer Village, Cannonville - they're all really cool names.” - Jon Kohler
Chimney Lake also shares an additional value feature that makes it even more unique. In our experience of selling over $1B in properties like this, over three decades in all types of markets, we recognized that some properties were sought out not only for recreation and enjoyment but also as a place for protection and wealth preservation. Over time, we developed a 10-point scorecard of measuring these attributes and a decade ago we trademarked the term Social “Storm Properties.” Chimney Lake is a great social storm property.
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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.