Mistletoe Plantation was a quail hunting plantation located in extreme northwest

Leon County, Florida Leon County is a county in the Panhandle of the U.S. state of Florida. It was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. As of the 2020 census, the population was 292,198. The county seat is Tallahassee, which is also the state cap ...

, and southeast

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, established by Mrs. Jean Hanna Gallien. Mistletoe Plantation lies mostly in Grady County, Georgia, with in Leon County.

Owner

Mrs. Jean Hanna Gallien was the granddaughter of Melvin Hanna of

M. A. Hanna Company M. A. Hanna Company was an iron ore processing company located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Origin The origins of the M. A. Hanna Co. are with Daniel F. Rhodes. In the 1840s Rhodes had founded Rhodes & Company which mined coal in the Maho ...

, a mining and

steel Steel is an alloy made up of iron with added carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. Many other elements may be present or added. Stainless steels that are corrosion- and oxidation-resistant ty ...

company. Mistletoe is near her grandfather's Melrose Plantation and Sinkhola Plantation owned by her sister Mrs. Warren Bicknell, Jr. Mistletoe continues to be a conservation easement for

Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy is a research and learning facility located in northern Leon County, Florida, just off County Road 12 on the north side of Lake Iamonia. Tall Timbers researches the areas of fire ecology, resour ...

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