Walnut Hill Plantation
Walnut Hill Plantation was a small forced-labor farm growing cotton on 2,120 acres (860 ha) located in northern Leon County, Florida, United States owned by Thomas Anderson Bradford.
Location
[edit]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.
Plantation specifics
[edit]The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Pine Hill Plantation had the following:
- Improved Land: 1,700 acres (690 ha)
- Unimproved Land: 420 acres (170 ha)
- 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
Owner
[edit]Thomas Anderson Bradford was born February 13, 1790, in Enfield, North Carolina. Thomas had a daughter, Sallie G. Bradford born in 1835 and died in 1867.
References
[edit]- Rootsweb Forced-labor Farms
- Largest Enslavers from 1860 Slave Census Schedules
- Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968.