Sunset Plantation/Mannies Farms and Hunter Lake are a privately owned Plantation, working farm, and hunting preserve in DeSoto Parish, established in 1898 and is owed and operated by the 4th and 5th generations of the Hunter and Mannies families. Sunset Plantation/Mannies Farms:
Encompassing the roughly 900 acres of land surrounding Hunter Lake, a private 58 acre champion fishing lake was built in 1942 and rebuilt in 2000. It rarely lowers even in the summer due to the acreage of runoff it collects and a natural running creek feeding the lake from the east. It ranges all depths to about 16’ and part of the lake is open with man made and natural log habitat piles while the back of the lake was only lightly cleared to give way for great fishing and duck hunting. Sunset Plantation as well as Hunter Lake and The Shed at Hunter Lake and The Point at Hunter Lake are all privately owned by Hunter Lee Mannies Trust and MaryBeth Mannies Allen Estate and are only accessible by permission. No hunting, fishing, or trespass of any kind is tolerated without consent. Sunset Plantation was reestablished in 1898 and is an original cotton plantation that was converted to timber in the 1970’s and also oil and gas production starting in the early 2000’s and still has intact overseers house, barn, 1800’s brick smoke house, as well as other historic wells and out buildings. The property is also used for first class white tail deer hunting, rabbit, squirrel, ducks, and dove and uses management principles in the growth of its white tail. Sunset Plantation and Hunter Lake have remained in the same family for 5 generations and is owned, managed, and inhabited by heirs currently.
