From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Blakely Plantation
Blakely Plantation
• Number of slaves: unknown[1]
• Bushels of corn: 3,000
• Bales of cotton: 40
Location of the Blakely Plantation and Ingleside Plantation
Blakely was a small cotton plantation of 900 acres
(360 ha) located in extreme northeast Leon County, Flori-
da and established by Miles Blake.
Where Blakely Plantation would be today
Location
Blakely was bounded on the east by Susan’s son’s In- The owner
gleside Plantation and would have been bound on the Blakely Plantation came into existence when Miles Blake
west by what is now County Road 59 (Veterans Memorial came from North Carolina in 1826. Miles’ wife, Susan Par-
Drive). Blakely’s northern boundary would now be Cy- ish Blake, was 53 years old in 1860 and took over owner-
press Landing Road and to the south it would have ship sometime prior to 1860. Susan’s son Joel Blake estab-
bounded by the streets of Leland Circle and Indigo Lane. lished Ingleside Plantation east of Blakely.
Isham, Walter, and Joel Blake, Susan’s sons, served in
the Civil War with Company K of the 5th Florida Infantry
(see Leon County in the Civil War).
As of 1980, J. A. Cromartie, a Blake great-grandson,
owned the proerty.
Notes
[1] Blakely and Ingleside may have used the same
slaves.
Blakely’s plantation house.
References
• Rootsweb Plantations
Plantaton specifics • Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows Sschedules
that the Blakely Plantation had the following: • Florida Historical Markers Program
• Improved Land: 500 acres (200 ha) • Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of
• Unimproved Land: 400 acres (160 ha) Florida Press, c1968.
• Cash value of plantation: $9,000
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $300
• Cash value of farm animals: $2,000
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