This is working sporting ground, not just acreage.

Ninety-one acres of Wharton Place lie outside the historic home site, and every one has been shaped into working sporting ground. This is the part of the property that matters most to a hunter walking it for the first time, so it's worth understanding as habitat, not just acreage.

The marsh is the anchor. Twelve acres of tidal wetland, tied directly into Assawoman Creek, provide the cover and feed that hold waterfowl through the season. This isn't a managed impoundment built to mimic a marsh, it's the real thing, connected to open water and part of a larger wetland system that includes the adjacent Assawoman Fen. Birds using this marsh are using a natural flyway corridor, not a stocked pond.

Behind the marsh, twenty acres of mixed hardwood and mature timber provide the cover and travel corridors that turkey and whitetail depend on. Timber like this takes decades to develop and can't be replicated on a newly cleared lot, offering bedding and staging ground that's rarely found intact on a property this size.

The fifty-nine acres of tillable sandy loam add real flexibility. Managed as food plots, this acreage can be tailored to support deer and turkey through the fall and winter. Managed as tenant farmland, it can generate income while still contributing edge habitat that benefits the adjoining timber and marsh. Either approach, or a mix of both, is realistic here.

All fourteen parcels are united under a conservation easement held by the Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust. For a hunter thinking long-term, that's the detail that changes everything: the habitat mix seen today, marsh, timber, and field in close proximity, is protected from subdivision or clearing. The hunting ground itself is part of what's being preserved.