The House Place Plantation was a small
cotton plantation
A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...
of located in central
Leon County,
Florida
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, United States established by R.A. Whitfield.
Location
The House Place bordered the
James Kirksey Plantation
The James A. Kirksey Plantation was a moderate plantation of located in northwestern Leon County, Florida, United States, established by James A. Kirksey. In 1847 he served as mayor of Tallahassee. He had a large number of slaves.
The James Kirk ...
on the west and the large
La Grange Plantation
La Grange Plantation was a large cotton plantation of located in central Leon County, Florida, United States established by Joseph John Williams.
Location
La Grange Plantation was located just east of Tallahassee in 2 tracts of land. The western ...
on the south and east. Today the land northeast of Fleischmann Road and between Miccosukee Road and Centervillle Road. In the twentieth century, House Place and other cotton plantations became Welaunee Plantation, used for quail hunting.
Plantation Specifics
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Pine Hill Plantation had the following:
* Improved Land:
* Unimproved Land:
* Cash value of plantation:
$16,600
* Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $500
* Cash value of farm animals: $2170
* Number of persons enslaved: 47
* Bushles of corn: 3000
* Bales of cotton: 216
The House Place would be purchased by Udo Fleishmann later on and become
Welaunee Plantation.
References
Rootsweb Plantations
*Paisley, Clifton; ''From Cotton To Quail'', University of Florida Press, c1968.
House Place Plantation
Whitfield family residences
Cotton plantations in Florida
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