The Homeplace
We’re bringing history back to life
Back in the 1870’s or 1880’s Archibald Brooks Webb knew exactly where he wanted to homestead. Now, nearly 150 years later, you will have the chance to see his passion in a whole new light.
Rolling hills dotted with pines interspersed with patches of pearl millet and sorghum is the perfect habitat to hold coveys.
In keeping with our desire to enhance quail habitat and provide ongoing improvements for a better hunting experience, The Webb Farm will open an additional hunting course with the advent of the fall 2021 season.
The Homeplace, as we have so lovingly dubbed the new course, will include a 120 acre tract of land homesteaded sometime between 1870 and 1880 by Archibald Brooks Webb, Bill’s Great Grandfather.
After Bill’s grandfather stopped farming it, the area was left alone and grew up into thick cover until a few years ago when Bill set his sights on opening it up for hunting. The carefully planned removal of underbrush and small trees along with the marked spacing of key loblolly pines, has created beautiful hunting grounds. This area of rolling hills, now dotted with pines, is interspersed with small fields and patches planted with pearl millet and sorghum to produce habitat that is sure to hold covey’s for the coming years.
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“All in all, I feel like this will end up being one of my favorite courses on the farm”, says Bill Webb.
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Old fence posts on the varied terrain points to livestock grazing grounds.
“Though we are not sure of the exact use of this parcel over those early decades other than the subsistence agriculture”, explains Bill, “I do know from oral history given to me by my late father, Randolph Webb, the bottom land in this parcel along Cartledge Creek, was the most fertile soil around and was used by both my great grandfather and grandfather, John Webb, up until the 1930’s to grow corn for the livestock. In my early quail hunting years, forays down into some of that area did reveal old, rusty barbwire fences which have eventually faded away. Other than the fertile bottom land, I believe the fencing indicates this was probably used for grazing livestock as its varied elevation and terrain doesn’t lend itself to growing crops.”
The Webb Farm has undergone a complete reorganization of hunting trails across the property. With the addition of the Homeplace, The Webb Farm now offers seven different hunting courses on our contiguous property along with “The Wade Place”, located across from the main property.
The final piece being completed this summer is creating a road along the creek which is graveled and graded to maximize disbursement of winter rains and ensure good access and travel during the season. “All in all, I feel like this will end up being one of my favorite courses on the farm”, says Bill