The House Place Plantation
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The House Place Plantation was a small cotton plantation of 1800 acres (7 km2) located in central Leon County, Florida, United States established by R.A. Whitfield.
[edit] Location
The House Place bordered the James Kirksey Plantation on the west and the large La Grange Plantation on the south and east. Today the land northeast of Fleischmann Road and between Miccosukee Road and Centervillle Road. The House Place and other cotton plantations became Welaunee Plantation.
[edit] Plantation Specifics
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Pine Hill Plantation had the following:
- Improved Land: 900 acres (3½ km²)
- Unimproved Land: 900 acres (3½ km²)
- Cash value of plantation: $16,600
- Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $500
- Cash value of farm animals: $2170
- Number of slaves: 47
- Bushles of corn: 3000
- Bales of cotton: 216
The House Place would be purchased by Udo Fleishmann later on and become Welaunee Plantation.
[edit] References
- Rootsweb Plantations
- Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Schedules
- Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968.