Barrow Hill Plantation

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Location of Barrow Hill Plantation.
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Location of Barrow Hill Plantation.

Barrow Hill Plantation was a large cotton plantation of 3990 acres (16 km2) located in central Leon County, Florida, USA established by John S. Winthrop.

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[edit] Location

Barrow Hill Plantation had 2 tracts of land. The first tract would cover what is now western sections of E. Tennessee St, eastern parts of Miccosukee Road, and Leon High School. The second tract to the east bordered Joseph John Williams' La Grange Plantation on the west and would cover what is now a part of Chaires Cross, a part of Buck Lake Road, and Interstate 10.

[edit] Plantation specifics

The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Barrow Hill Plantation had the following:

  • Improved Land: 2590 acres (10½ km²)
  • Unimproved Land: 1400 acres (5½ km²)
  • Cash value of plantation: $10,000
  • Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $500
  • Cash value of farm animals: $3000
  • Number of slaves: 71
  • Bushels of corn: 2,200
  • Bales of cotton: 204

Agents on behalf of John Winthrop:

  • R.S.D. Hays
  • T.W. Lawrence

[edit] The owner

John S. Winthrop was a native of New Bern, North Carolina. In 1860, Winthrop was still a minor. Due to the SS Home wreck of 1837, Winthrop was due to receive large property inheritance. Henrietta Smith was great-grandmother to Winthrop and mother of the deceased Mrs. Hardy Croom of Goodwood Plantation.

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