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Chemonie Plantation

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5591 Miccosukee Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32308, USA

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Chemonie Plantation was a medium sized cotton plantation of 1,840 acres (740 ha) in northern Leon County, Florida, United States established by Hector Braden.

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Location

Chemonie Plantion was situated on two separate tracts of land. The first tract was located between Centerville Road and the Monticello Road occupying a large amount of land. The second tract was south and slightly east. It was on the Leon County/Jefferson County line.

Adjacent plantations:

  • Evergreen Hills Plantation to the west
  • Tuscawilla Plantation to the north.

    • The owners

  • Hector Braden.
  • In 1811, George Noble Jones was born to Noble Wimberly Jones and Sarah (Fenwick) Jones. Jones was from a long line of wealthy colonial men. His forefather, Noble Jones established Wormsloe Plantation near Savannah, Georgia. On May 18, 1840, Noble married Mary Savage Nuttall and purchased Chemonie as well as the Nuttall's El Destino Plantation. He spent the summer months at his Kingscote Mansion in Newport, Rhode Island until the Civil War.

    • Plantation statistics

    The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the Chemonie Plantation had the following:

  • Improved Land: 1,000 acres (400 ha)
  • Unimproved Land: 840 acres (340 ha)
  • Cash value of plantation: $18,400
  • Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1300
  • Cash value of farm animals: $2,608
  • Number of slaves: 64
  • Bushels of corn: 5000
  • Bales of cotton: 200

    • 20th century

    Around 1945, David S. Ingalls, a director of Pan Am World Airways and publisher of Cincinnati Times-Star with Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr. an executive with M.A. Hanna Company, a coal company, purchased Chemonie Plantation, a quail hunting plantation, which became part of the Ireland-Ingalls ownership, a joint business concern. Aside from quail, Chemonie shared 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land in corn production.

    References

    Chemonie Plantation Wikipedia
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