R. G. Shepard Plantation
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The R. G. Shepard Plantation was a small forced-labor farm growing cotton on Script error: No such module "convert". located in south central Leon County, Florida, United States established by R. G. Shepard.
Location
The R. G. Shepard Plantation bordered Southwood Plantation on the west side. Also nearby and to the northeast were the Joseph Chaires Plantation, as well as George Taliaferro Ward's Clifford Place Plantation, Waverly Plantation, and Southwood Plantation.
Today, this land encompasses part of Tram Road in the general area of an incorporated community called Corey, southeast of Southwood Golf Club and northeast of Woodville.
Plantation specifics
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the R. G. Shepard Plantation had the following:
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- Cash value of plantation: $24,000
- Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $2000
- Cash value of farm animals: $7000
- Number of persons enslaved: 90
- Bushels of corn: 1000
- Bales of cotton: 225
References
- Rootsweb Plantations
- Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Schedules
- Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968.
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