Livingston Place, a former antebellum cotton plantation in the heart of the Red Hills, became from 1926 to 1994 the winter estate of the Livingston family of New York, who called it Dixie Plantation. Gerald Moncrieffe Livingston, an investment broker and governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and his wife Eleanor Hoffman Rodewald, avid hunters, amassed more than 18,000 acres spanning the Florida-Georgia border. In 1936, architect John Russell Pope designed a three-story Neo-Classical Revival brick mansion overlooking Lake Windom, his only construction in Florida. Gerald Livingston also served as president of the Continental Field Trial Club, begun in 1895, and this land has hosted the Continental Field Trial since 1937, bringing together the nation’s top bird dogs and handlers. Through the Livingstons’ stewardship, the property became one of the finest wild quail hunting estates in the South. Black tenant farmers and sharecroppers were critical to the origin and success of Red Hills hunting preserves through the mid-20th century, as their small-scale subsistence patch farming and traditional controlled burning practices supported abundant game, especially bobwhite quail. Other skilled laborers included dog handlers, horse trainers, and house and grounds workers. At its peak in 1940 during the Jim Crow era, 400 Black workers and their families lived there in a self-contained community with homes, churches, and schools. In 1994, the youngest Livingston daughter established the Geraldine C. M. Livingston Foundation to support use of the 9,125-acre Florida half of the property for dog field trials and as a wildlife refuge. In 1998, the foundation permanently protected the land with a conservation easement, and in 2013 it gave the property to Tall Timbers, a non-profit research and land conservation organization, which expanded wildlife research and restored the historic main house in 2021. Livingston Place remains a working landscape supporting wild bobwhite quail habitat through decades of science-driven land management and prescribed fire.