Chemonie Plantation

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Chemonie Plantation was a medium sized cotton plantation of 1840 acres (7½ km²) in northern Leon County, Florida, USA established by Hector Braden.

Contents 1 Location 2 Plantation statistics 3 The owners 4 References

[edit] Location

Chemonie Plantion was situated on two separate tracts of land. The first tract was located between Centerville Road and the Monticello Road occupying a large amount of land. The second tract was south and slightly east. It was on the Leon County/Jefferson County line and bordered Evergreen Hills Plantation on the west and bordered a tip of Tuscawilla Plantation onv the north.

[edit] Plantation statistics

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

• Improved Land: 1000 acres (4 km²)
• Unimproved Land: 840 acres (3 km²)
• Cash value of plantation: $18,400
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1300
• Cash value of farm animals: $2,608
• Number of slaves: 64
• Bushels of corn: 5000
• Bales of cotton: 200

[edit] The owners

• Hector Braden.
• In 1811, George Noble Jones was born to Noble Wimberly Jones and Sarah (Fenwick) Jones. Jones was from a long line of wealthy colonial men. His forefather, Noble Jones established Wormsloe Plantation near Savannah, Georgia. On May 18, 1840, Noble married Mary Savage Nuttall and purchased Chemonie as well as the Nuttall's El Destino Plantation.

[edit] References

• Rootsweb Plantations
• Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Schedules
• FL Historical Society
• Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968.