La Grange Plantation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
La Grange Plantation was a large forced-labor farm of 4,150 acres (1,680 ha) located in central Leon County, Florida, United States established by Joseph John Williams.
La Grange Plantation was located just east of Tallahassee in 2 tracts of land. The westernmost tract bordered the James Kirksey Plantation on the east and Barrow Hill Plantation on the south.
The second tract of land to the east and much larger than the first bordered R. A. Whitfield's The House Place Plantation on the west, Barrow Hill Plantation's second tract of land on the east, and to the south it bordered Evergreen Hills Plantation and the Francis Eppes Plantation.
Plantation specifics
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the La Grange Plantation had the following:
- Improved Land: 3,150 acres (1,270 ha)
- Unimproved Land: 1,000 acres (400 ha)
- Cash value of plantation: $55,200
- Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $3425
- Cash value of farm animals: $13,134
- Number of persons enslaved: 232
- Bushels of corn: N/A
- Bales of cotton: N/A
Purchasing agents for land, equipment and slaves:
- J. L. Stroman
- W. J. Akin
- R. B. Cole
- T. W. Ross
- D. F. Hurger
La Grange was Leon County's largest producer of cotton at the beginning of the Civil War. Williams would go on to inherit 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) of land from his father-in-law, Noah Thompson.
