R. G. Shepard Plantation
Location of the R. G. Shepard Plantation
The R. G. Shepard Plantation was a small cotton plantation of 1,400 acres (570 ha) located in south central Leon County, Florida, USA established by R.G. Shepard.
Location
The R.G. Shepard Plantation bordered Southwood Plantation on the west side. Also nearby and to the northeast would have been the Joseph Chaires Plantation as well as George Taliaferro Ward's Clifford Place Plantation, Waverly Plantation, and Southwood Plantation.
Today that 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:
- Improved Land: 800 acres (320 ha)
- Unimproved Land: 600 acres (240 ha)
- Cash value of plantation: $24,000
- Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $2000
- Cash value of farm animals: $7000
- Number of slaves: 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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