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Miccosukee Plantation was a medium-sized forced-labor farm of 2,517 acres (10 km2) located in eastern
Leon County, Florida Leon County () is a County (United States), county in the Florida Panhandle, Panhandle of the U.S. state of Florida. It was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population w ...
, USA. It was developed by John Miller, from
Duplin County, North Carolina Duplin County ( )
, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the
Indian Removal in the 1830s. He depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans to develop the plantation and produce cotton as a commodity crop.


Location

Miccosukee Plantation was located in eastern Leon County near
Lake Miccosukee Lake Miccosukee is a large swampy prairie lake in northern Jefferson County, Florida, located east of the settlement of Miccosukee. A small portion of the lake, its northwest corner, is located in Leon County. The small town of Miccosukee, F ...
and the village of
Miccosukee The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians ( /ˌmɪkəˈsuki/, MIH-kə-SOO-kee) is a federally recognized Native American tribe in the U.S. state of Florida. Together with the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, it is one of ...
, most likely north of
Blakely Plantation Blakely Plantation was a cotton plantation, forced-labor farm of located in extreme northeast Leon County, Florida, Leon County, Florida. In 1850, the farm included 800 acres worked by 51 enslaved people. Blakely was bounded on the east by Ingle ...
.


Plantation specifics

The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Miccosukee Plantation had the following: * Improved Land: 1400 acres (5½ km2) * Unimproved Land: 1300 acres (5 km2) * Cash value of plantation: $35,000 * Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $250 * Cash value of farm animals: $15,000 * Number of slaves: 80 * Bushels of corn: 5000 * Bales of cotton: 180 Miller grazed 266 head of cattle, 160 sheep, and 250 hogs on the lowlands of Miccosukee.


Owner

Miller was born in 1798 in
Duplin County, North Carolina Duplin County ( )
, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the
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