The William D. Bloxham Plantation was a small cotton plantation of 1400 acres (5.7 km²) located southwest of Tallahassee

Tallahassee, Florida

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William D. Bloxham

William Dunnington Bloxham was an American politician. He served as the 13th and 17th Governor of Florida in two non-consecutive terms. Prior to his first term as governor, he served in the Florida House of Representatives....

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Plantation specifics

The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the William D. Bloxam Plantation had the following:

• Improved Land: 600 acres (2.4 km²)
• Unimproved Land: 800 acres (3.2 km²)
• Cash value of plantation: $7000
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $765
• Cash value of farm animals: $1500
• Number of slaves: 52
• Bushels of corn: 2500
• Bales of cotton: 100

The owner

• William Bloxham was born July 9, 1835 in Florida
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   and listed as 24 years old in 1860. Bloxham served as Florida Governor from 1881 through 1885. He again served as Governor from 1897 through 1901. Bloxham died March 15, 1911.
• In 1884 William D. Bloxam plantation was sold to Charles J. F. Allen of Louisville
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  for $8241.

Reconstruction

William D. Bloxham was one of, if not the first, to abandon cotton in 1879 in favor of intensive farming. Bloxam had $2275 worth of livestock in 1879.