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Goodwood, built in the second decade of Leon County's cotton-growing era, was one of the finest plantation houses in the county. It still stands, now inside Tallahassee's city limits. Photo from the Florida Development Commission, c. 1967
Farming didn't prosper on the game plantations, but housing for tenants and plantation workers improved. Tenants' and workers' houses on the game plantations are typically far superior to the tenant houses of former days, with running...
Bright leaf tobacco (there are now only a few acres of this in Leon County) growing on the Turkey Run Plantation of H.W. Nichols. Flue-curing shed in the background. 16-year-old son of Plantation Manager Clemon Jones, Ulysses Jones, ...
Milking shed in background was that of Velda Dairy, Leon County's largest farming operation. It was later used by Foster Dairy in 1967 and then Willis Dairy. At the time of the photograph, Foster was in the process of moving his herd of...
The drainage ditch follows the approximate route of "Scott's Ditch" or "Scott's Millrace, described on old deed records. It is speculated that just upstream from this rail crossing was where Colonel George W. Scott had his 16-foot water...
This straight-sided ditch, about four feet deep and now grown up in siebel trees, runs beside the drainage ditch south of Orange Avenue (barely seen in background of this picture) for a quarter mile or more northeastward from the trestle...
This game plantation house (with quail cutouts on the shutters) was built by Udo Fleischmann, who established Welaunee Plantation in 1912, now owned by his nephew John W. Mettler, Jr.
A.F. (Pete) Rich, a part-time cattleman, has been experimenting with peach-growing and (as seen here in 1968) nectarines as cash crops on Richwood Farms.
Beadel and Dr. Trussell, professor of science education at FSU, check on of the fire plots on Tall Timbers Plantation. Beadel left his 2800 acre plantation, one of the first quail plantations established in Leon County, to a research...
Giant pecan tree, 12 feet in girth, on Jefferson Street, in front of Dorman Hall, FSU. Probably from a farm planting in the 1890-1900 period. Many trees of comparable size could be found throughout Tallahassee at the time of the photograph.
George Ford, milker at Florida State University Dairy Farm, with cows outside the milking barn. Picture taken just before Ford retired from his job after holding it for 47 years
Part of this old house on Old Saint Augustine Road, south of the community of Chaires, is said to have comprised two or more rooms of the house of Tom Peter Chaires called Woodlawn.
Part of this old house on Old Saint Augustine Road, south of the community of Chaires, is said to have comprised two or more rooms of the house of Tom Peter Chaires called Woodlawn.
Building, possible a barn or house, at the end of a dirt road with overgrown grasses along the road. Unknown location though probably in North Florida.
Photographed from the book Florida, The Land of Enchantment by Nevin O. Winters (The Page Co., 1918). The one-ox cart was the principle means of transportation on market day, and the one-ox plough was the typical means for breaking land, ...
Patrick Houstoun, member of an old Leon County family, turned his Lakeland Plantation east of Tallahassee into a progressive dairy, livestock, and general farm a few years after the Civil War. Photo courtesy of his granddaughter, Mrs....
Emile Dubois, a French immigrant, put Leon County on the map with grape-growing and wine-making on his Andalusia and San Luis vineyards beginning in the 1880s. Photo courtesy of his grandson, Edmond Beroud, Miami, Florida.
Row on row of fifty-year-old pecan trees now shade subdivisions like this one north of Tallahassee, commemorating a scheme of the Florida Pecan Endowment Co. to sell 5, 000 acres in five-acre tracts planted in pecans.
The large tung tree on the Jimmy Roberts farm shown in this picture may very well be the oldest tung tree in Florida. It was given as a small tree to Roberts' father, William Roberts by William Raynes, who planted the first tung tree in...
Pecan grove on Swatts Road, near intersection with Bainbridge Road. This was part of the ill-fated Florida Pecan Endowment development of 5000 acres in five-acre groves.
This is a swing churn of the sort extensively used in Leon County when butter-making was the principal activity in dairy-processing. This one is a 20-gallon churn but some held as much as 100 gallons. Churn owned by F.E. and Miss Mabel...
John J. Cavanaugh looking over meadow on his farm, Old Bainbridge Road. In 1966 Cavanaugh sold dairy herd after being in the dairy business at this site since 1903. Land is part of the Cooper Dairy Farm established in 1885. Mrs. Cooper...
The antebellum plantation house on Old Bainbridge Road was owned at the time of the photograph by Justice Millard Caldwell of the Florida Supreme Court.
Georgia hunting wagons, pulled by two fleet mules, are still used on game plantation hunts and in field trials. The fall, 1967 Georgia-Florida Invitational field trial here proceeds across a cotton field on Chemonie Plantation.
Photo courtesy of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Josie White and her daughter, Mrs. J.C. Hartsfield who live in the old Cooper House as of the time of this reproduction.
Leonard C. Cooper and family picking cotton on his farm in the east part of Leon County in August 1962. Cotton, which produced 16, 000 bales in 1860, had disappeared from all but a few acres by the time of the photograph.
Leonard C. Cooper and family picking cotton on his farm in the east part of Leon County in August 1962. Cotton, which produced 16, 000 bales in 1860, had disappeared from all but a few acres by the time of the photograph.
Leonard C. Cooper and family picking cotton on his farm in the east part of Leon County in August 1962. Cotton, which produced 16, 000 bales in 1860, had disappeared from all but a few acres by the time of the photograph.
Leonard C. Cooper and family picking cotton on his farm in the east part of Leon County in August 1962. Cotton, which produced 16, 000 bales in 1860, had disappeared from all but a few acres by the time of the photograph.
William Cooper (on horse) and some of his herd, Cooper Dairy Farm on Old Bainbridge Road c. 1895. Cooper came from Ireland in 1886 and established a family dairy which lasted until 1967. Photo courtesy of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Josie...
View of the house and farm of Emile Dubois, who is shown under tree. He called the place the Chateau San Luis or San Luis Vineyard. Site presently occupied by the Messer House on Mission Road. Photo courtesy of his grandson, Edmond...
An old town house in Tallahassee, the structure was moved to the site of Colonel George T. Ward's plantation house by his great-grandson, George L. Henderson, and redesigned as a plantation house. It was at the time of the photograph a...
According to Susan Bradford Eppes (Through Some Eventful Years, p.145), George T. Ward, an opponent of secession, said just before he signed the secession ordinance: "when I die I want it inscribed upon my tombstone that I was the last...
Old sugar mills like this one on Chaires Crossroad have been used for a hundred years to make syrup. George W. and Erma Lee White show how the mule is hitched up. Shed in background is where the crushed cane is boiled.
Old sugar mills like this one on Chaires Crossroad have been used for a hundred years to make syrup. George W. and Erma Lee White show how the mule is hitched up. Shed in background is where the crushed cane is boiled.
Old sugar mills like this one on Chaires Crossroad have been used for a hundred years to make syrup. Erma Lee White show how the mule is hitched up. Shed in background is where the crushed cane is boiled.
Old tobacco packing house, now in ruins, was that of Levi Scott, who operated the Boston-Florida Tobacco Co., Bannerman Road, until about 1912. Place was owned at time of photograph by Victor Cawthon.
Charles Freeland is a partner in one of Leon county's principal dairy enterprises. In April 1968, he was busy installing a feed center at the foot of a bank of silos.
Blakely, plantation house built by Miles Blake, who came to Leon County in the 1820s from North Carolina. It's a rare plantation in that it has remained in the hands of the same family for about 140 years. The house and several hundred...
Blakely, plantation house built by Miles Blake, who came to Leon County in the 1820s from North Carolina. It's a rare plantation in that it has remained in the hands of the same family for about 140 years. The house and several hundred...
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