Basic Information

• Location – Jasper County

  Six miles north of Ridgeland

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Hunting preserve. Huge farming enterprise known as Cypress Woods Corporation.
  

  Jack Morris takes care of the Turkey Hill recreation section. There are 150 plantings of patches for wildlife food, and three duck ponds are maintained. There is a fifty-acre lake stocked with fish; and a lake of five acres completed in recent months.
  

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1939 – House built by Jeremiah Milbank
  

Land

• Number of acres – 19,000

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Jeremiah Milbank (1939)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – Yes, but unknown number
  

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Initial references: 4

  Turkey Hill Plantation by Jeremiah Milbank with Grace Fox Perry.