William A. Carr Plantation
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The William A. Carr Plantation was a small cotton plantation of 2000 acres (8 km2) in northwestern Leon County, Florida established by William A. Carr.
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[edit] Location
The land was situated at the northern tip of Lake Carr and incompassed what is now the small unincorporated African-American community of Blocker and the Cedar Hill Road area. A road in northern Leon County just off of Bannerman Road, Carr Lane, is the remnant of William Carr in the area.
[edit] Plantation statistics
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the William A. Carr Plantation had the following:
- Improved Land: 1000 acres (4 km²)
- Unimproved Land: 1000 acres (4 km²)
- Cash value of plantation: $31,000
- Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1000
- Cash value of farm animals: $5,000
- Number of slaves: 77
- Bushels of corn: 5000
- Bales of cotton: 260
[edit] The owner
William Carr was originally from Virginia. Outside of agriculture, Carr was a stockholder with the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company in 1838. [1] In 1840 Carr was a complaintant in a land case before the United States Supreme Court. Carr was also one of the first teachers at the all black McBride School. [2]
[edit] References
- Rootsweb Plantations
- Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Sschedules
- Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968.
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