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[[Image:Pine Hill Plantation.png|thumb|right|Location of Horseshoe Plantation in 1860]]
'''Horseshoe Plantation''' is an {{convert|11000|acre|km2|adj=on}} cotton-growing [[cotton plantation|forced-labor farm]] located in northern [[Leon County, Florida|Leon County]], [[Florida]] and established around 1840 by Dr. Edward Bradford, a planter from [[Enfield, North Carolina|Enfield]], [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bradfordgenealogy.org/CROWELLGENEALOGY.html |title=Bradford Genealogy (Crowell) |access-date=2006-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060310200605/http://www.bradfordgenealogy.org/CROWELLGENEALOGY.html |archive-date=2006-03-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
It is currently owned and maintained by [[Frederic C. Hamilton]]
==Plantation specifics==
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[[Image:Horseshoe Plantation.png|thumb|right|Location of Horseshoe Plantation in 1911]]
[[Image:Horseshoe Plantation rc19240.jpg|thumb|left|Horseshoe Plantation house]]
In 1901, [[Clement Griscom|Clement A. Griscom]], a businessman and shipping magnate from [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] whose family gained much wealth after the [[American Civil War]] purchased {{convert|978|acre|km2}} and plantation house in the horseshoe bend of [[Lake Iamonia]] for $5300 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=5300|start_year=1901}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) from R. E. Lester, the son of Capt. William Lester of [[Oaklawn Plantation (Leon County, Florida)|Oaklawn Plantation]].
<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Horseshoe Plantation rc19243.jpg|thumb|Horseshoe Plantation house]] -->From 1902 through 1903 Griscom purchased land from heirs of [[Burgesstown Plantation]], the Whitehead family, and many other owners retaining the "Horseshoe Plantation" name. The plantation eventually was more than {{convert|10000|acre|abbr=on}} in size with over {{convert|25|mi|km}} of woodland drives. The plantation house had a {{convert|700|ft|abbr=on}} long [[piazza]].
Griscom, an owner and breeder of [[Jersey cattle]] on his [[Haverford, Pennsylvania]] farm, '[[Dolobran]],' brought 75 head to Horseshoe. Griscom also fancied [[pecan]]s and had {{convert|75|acre|m2}} set aside for their cultivation. In 1911 There were 80 [[tenant farmer]] families at Horseshoe Plantation. One-third of Horseshoe was cultivated by these tenant farmers with {{convert|1200|acre|km2}} in cotton and {{convert|1500|acre|km2}} in corn.
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On October 19, 1916, and after Clement Griscom's death, the eastern part of Horseshoe was sold to New Yorker George F. Baker, Jr. for $170,000. Baker was the son of [[George Fisher Baker]], a wealthy financier and banker who was a financial associate of [[J. P. Morgan]].<ref>Paisley, Clifton; ''From Cotton To Quail'', University of Florida Press, c1968, p. 84.</ref>
The western part of Horseshoe was divided into two separate plantations. Clement Grisom's son, [[Lloyd C. Griscom]], established his {{convert|4000|acre|abbr=on}} [[Luna Plantation]], a winter residence in the east. It extended along the southern shores of [[Lake Iamonia]] westward to the [[Ochlockonee River]]. [[Frances C. Griscom]], sister to Lloyd, established her [[Water Oak Plantation]] on the remaining {{convert|7000|acre|abbr=on}} naming it for the [[Antebellum architecture|antebellum]] plantation belonging to Richard H. Bradford.<ref>
Paisley, Clifton; ''From Cotton To Quail'', University of Florida Press, c1968, pp. 83-84.</ref>
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*[http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/fl/leon/census/1860agri.txt Rootsweb Plantations]
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/flleon.htm Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Schedules]
[[Category:Plantations in Leon County, Florida]]
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