Walnut Hill Plantation
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Walnut Hill Plantation was a small forced-labor farm growing cotton on Template:Convert in northern Leon County, Florida, United States, owned by Thomas Anderson Bradford.
Location
Walnut Hill was located in the general area of Bradfordville near William Bradford's Edgewood Plantation, Edward Bradford's Pine Hill Plantation, and Richard H. Bradford's Water Oak Plantation.
Plantation specifics
The Leon County, Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Pine Hill Plantation had the following:
- Improved Land: Template:Convert
- Unimproved Land: Template:Convert
- 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
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
- Rootsweb Forced-labor Farms
- Largest Enslavers from 1860 Slave Census Schedules
- Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968.