William A. Carr Plantation

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The William A. Carr Plantation was a small cotton plantation of 2000 acres (8 km²) in northwestern Leon County, Florida established by William A. Carr.

Contents 1 Location 2 Plantation statistics 3 The owner 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Location

The land was situated at the northern tip of Lake Carr and encompassed what is now the small unincorporated African-American community of Blocker and the Cedar Hill Road area. A road in northern Leon County just off Bannerman Road, Carr Lane, is the remnant of William Carr in the area.

[edit] Plantation statistics

The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the William A. Carr Plantation had the following:

• Improved Land: 1000 acres (4 km²)
• Unimproved Land: 1000 acres (4 km²)
• Cash value of plantation: $31,000
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1000
• Cash value of farm animals: $5,000
• Number of slaves: 77
• Bushels of corn: 5000
• Bales of cotton: 260

[edit] The owner

William Carr was originally from Virginia. Outside of agriculture, Carr was a stockholder with the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company in 1838. [1] In 1840 Carr was a complaintant in a land case before the United States Supreme Court. Carr was also one of the first teachers at the all black McBride School. [2]

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

• Carr vs. Duval, US Supreme Court