Edgewood Plantation (Leon County, Florida) Explained

Edgewood Plantation was a small forced-labor farm of 1840 acres (7½ km²) located in northern Leon County, Florida, USA owned by Dr. William Bradford.

Location

Edgewood Plantation was located in the general area of Bradfordville near Thomas Anderson Bradford's Walnut Hill Plantation, and 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 Edgewood Plantation had the following:

• Improved Land: unknown
• Unimproved Land: unknown
• Cash value of plantation: unknown
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $75
• Cash value of farm animals: $870
• Number of slaves: N/A
• Bushels of corn: N/A
• Bales of cotton: N/A

The owner

William Bradford was born in 1829 in Enfield, North Carolina and became the doctor for the slaves at Pine Hill Plantation.

References

• Rootsweb Plantations
• Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Schedules
• Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968.