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Specialties
Get out and enjoy your vacation the way it was meant to be experienced — in nature! Red Gate Campground’s on-site amenity rich experience, with activities that include fishing ponds, bird watching, nature trails, horseback riding, salt water swimming pool, and a Clubhouse with a pool table and Big screen TV that is available to you 24 hours a day!
History
Established in 1931.
If the majestic 200 year old oak trees on Red Gate Farms could talk, perhaps they would tell us about the Indians & Colonists who have walked this land or the wild animals who once roamed here.
The trees cannot tell us their tales, but through research we know that the land was used as an encampment for Confederate soldiers, and later occupied by General Sherman after his March to the Sea. In addition, many Civil War artifacts have been found on the land.
We also know that a Powder Magazine to house ammunition was built on land bordering Red Gate Farms in 1898. The Powder Magazine care-keeper’s house was built on land which eventually became part of Red Gate Farms. The remnants of the care-keeper’s house may be seen today.
Mr. Harry E. Martin, Jr. purchased the wooded 440 acres in 1931, which he & his wife named «Red Gate Farms». Red Gate was named in memory of Mrs. Martin’s cousin, Cyrus Steadwell, who was killed in France during World War I. He had always said he wanted to own such a
