Walnut Hill Plantation

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Walnut Hill Plantation was a small cotton plantation of 2120 acres (8.5 km²) located in northern Leon County, Florida, USA owned by Thomas Anderson Bradford.

Contents 1 Location 2 Plantation specifics 3 Owner 4 References

[edit] Location

Walnut Hill was located in the general area of Bradfordville near William Bradford's Edgewood Plantation, and Edward Bradford's Pine Hill Plantation, and Richard H. Bradford's Water Oak Plantation.

[edit] Plantation specifics

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

• Improved Land: 1700 acres (7 km²)
• Unimproved Land: 420 acres (2 km²)
• Cash value of plantation: $12,000
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $600
• Cash value of farm animals: $3700
• Number of slaves: 65
• Bushels of corn: 2500
• Bales of cotton: 80

[edit] Owner

Thomas Anderson Bradford was born born February 13, 1790 in Enfield, North Carolina. Thomas had a daughter, Sallie G. Bradford born in 1835 and died in 1867.

[edit] References

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