Founded in the latter part of the 19th century, Whetstone Plantation is located in Autauga County, Alabama, USA. When Rev. Henry Whetstone first came to this land in Central Alabama, he immediately appreciated the name given to the area by early local Indian tribes -- Atagi, meaning Land of Plenty. Being a farmer by trade, he immediately set out to cultivate the rich dark soil to produce bountiful cotton crops. The crops produced were rich and plentiful and of such superior grade that some of it approached legendary status.

In the early part of this century, Henry Mordecia Whetstone passed the cotton plantation on to his son, David Dobbins Whetstone, Sr., who carried on the family tradition without missing a step. David Dobbins was eager to follow in his father's footsteps and began laboring on the farm at the age of ten. With the help of 15 black families, David cultivated hundreds of acres using only mules and 2-row plow equipment. In the early 1940's, with the advent of mechanical farming, David Dobbins purchased the first of many tractors and other farm equipment.

David Dobbins Whetstone, Sr. continued to run a successful and productive cotton farming business up until the crops were completely lost in 1977. When he passed away soon thereafter, he left the plantation to his heirs who struggled for almost 2 decades against poor cotton prices and bad weather to keep the plantation in operation.

In 1987, as cotton farming continued to become more and more difficult, the family decided to turn to some of the other rich and abundant resource blessing the land -- it's abundance of natural game. With the same enthusiasm and determination displayed by the first Whetstones more than a century earlier, the family worked to once again make the Plantation a rich and hearty producer of the fruits of the land. Using carefully applied wildlife management practices, the deer population has been cultivated to superior standards. The Whetstone Plantation is once again...

1997 was our first year of Guided Hunts and one of our visitors was Ted Cundiff, Sr. President of Wild Bill's Foods, Inc. from Lancaster, PA. He and his twin sons came for a hunt and brought a suitcase full of his beef jerky products. Everyone loved the jerky snacks, but they were no where to be found in the State of Alabama. Ted jokingly said he was going to turn us into Wild Bill jerky folks and he did! March 6, 1998 we made our first sales and with the help of two company sales reps, we have central Alabama developed and still growing. All of this is Thanks to Our Lord for answering our prayers.

This Website is dedicated to the memory of:

David Dobbins Whetstone, Sr. (1917-1979)
David Dobbins Whetstone, Jr. (1943-1999)
Connie Elizabeth Whetstone (1951-1978)
Henry Mordecia Whetstone (1939 - 2001)

We would also like to remember all of the Whetstone's who worked to forge the paths that we now walk:

Henry Mordecia Whetstone (1882-1937)
Lewis Jermire Whetstone (1853-1906)
Peyton Henry Whetstone (1831-1872)
Lewis Myers Whetstone (1808-1881)
Rev. Henry Whetstone (1784-1834)