Horseshoe Plantation is an 11000 acres (44.5 km²) cotton plantation located in northern Leon County

Leon County, Florida

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, Florida

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 and established around 1840 by Dr. Edward Bradford, a planter from Enfield

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, North Carolina

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It is currently owned and maintained by Frederic C. Hamilton

Frederic C. Hamilton

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. Mr. Hamilton is chairman of Hamilton Groups LLC.
Horseshoe Plantation is also a home to English Cocker Spaniels and other bird dogs.
In 1901, Clement A. Griscom

Clement Griscom

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, a businessman and shipping magnate from Philadelphia

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 whose family gained much wealth after the American Civil War

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 purchased 978 acres (4 km²) and plantation house in the horseshoe bend of Lake Iamonia for $5300 from R.