<P> The Red Hills or Tallahassee Hills region covers parts of Gadsden, Leon, and Jefferson counties in Florida, and Grady and Thomas counties in Georgia . It is bounded on the west by the Ochlockonee River, on the south by the Cody Scarp, on the east by the watershed of the Aucilla River, and on the north by the Tifton Upland of Georgia . The Cody Scarp drops about 100 feet (30 m) from the Red Hills or Tallahassee Hills to the Gulf Coastal Lowlands to the south . </P> <P> The area was first settled by paleo - indians in and around the various lakes in the southern part of the Red Hills . Apalachee indians were found here in the 16th century . The Apalachee were almost annihilated through wars, disease, and slavery . In the 18th century, the Seminoles made the Red Hills their home until the early 19th century and the Seminole Wars . </P> <P> Also in the 19th century, white settlers began cotton plantations, which thrived until the Civil War . At one time, Leon County, Florida, was the 5th largest producer of cotton among all counties in Georgia and Florida . After the Civil War, many of the Red Hills' plantations became winter homes and quail hunting plantations for wealthy northerners; the area between Thomasville and Tallahassee is still home to dozens of such plantations, such as Greenwood, Pebble Hill, and Goodwood . </P> <P> Rolling hills, ravines and gullies covered by forests and the large lakes of Lake Jackson, Lake Iamonia, Lake Miccosukee, Lake Lafayette, and Lake Talquin . The highest point in the Red Hills is 280 feet (85.3 m) north of Tallahassee by 10 miles . The soil is red clay deposited during the last ice age from the Appalachian Mountains . Rivers running through the Red Hills Region are the Aucilla River, Ochlockonee River, and Telogia Creek . The St. Marks River is subterranean until it meets the surface in the Woodville Karst Plain . </P>

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