Ingleside Plantation

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Location of the Blakely Plantation and Ingleside Plantation.

Where Blakely & Ingleside plantations would be today.

Ingleside Plantation was a medium sized cotton plantation of 2620 acres (10½ km²) located in extreme northeast Leon County, Florida and established by Joel C. Blake.

1 Location
2 Plantaton statistics
3 The owner
4 References

[edit] Location

Ingleside was bounded on the east by the shores of Lake Miccosukee and would have been bound on the west by Joel's mother's Blakely Plantation. Today, the land is County Road 59 (Veterans Memorial Drive). Ingleside's northern boundary would now be Cypress Landing Road and to the south it would have bounded by the streets of Leland Circle and Indigo Lane.

[edit] Plantaton statistics

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

Improved Land: 1500 acres (6 km²)
Unimproved Land: 1140 acres (4½ km²)
Cash value of plantation: $25,000
Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1200
Cash value of farm animals: $5,000
Number of slaves: 116
Bushels of corn: 7000
Bales of cotton: 181

[edit] The owner

Joel C. Blake was 29 years old in 1860. He married Laura Parish, some relation to his mother. Joel's Ingleside Plantation came into existence when Joel Blake purchased land to the east of Blakely Plantation. Blake joined the Confederacy and was killed on July 2, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg.