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For the adventure game, see Barrow Hill

Barrow Hill (game)

Barrow Hill is a horror adventure game created in 2006 by independent developers Matt Clark & Shadow Tor Studios.The game is set in the site of Barrow Hill, which is based on real geographical locations in Cornwall, England....

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Barrow Hill Plantation was a large cotton plantation of 3990 acre (1,614.7 ha) located in central Leon County

Leon County, Florida

Leon County is a county located in the state of Florida, named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León. At the 2010 Census, the population was 275,487. The county seat of Leon County is Tallahassee which also serves as the state capital. The county seat is home to two of Florida's major...

, Florida

Florida

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, USA established by John S. Winthrop.

Location

Barrow Hill Plantation had 2 tracts of land. The first tract would cover what is now western sections of E. Tennessee St, eastern parts of Miccosukee Road, and Leon High School

Leon High School

Leon High School is a public high school in Tallahassee, Florida. For the 2007-2008 school year, the Florida Department of Education gave the school an "A" rating after its students scored well above the state average on standardized tests in reading and in math...

. The second tract to the east bordered Joseph John Williams' La Grange Plantation

La Grange Plantation

La Grange Plantation was a large cotton plantation of located in central Leon County, Florida, USA established by Joseph John Williams.-Location:La Grange Plantation was located just east of Tallahassee in 2 tracts of land...

 on the west and would cover what is now a part of Chaires Cross, a part of Buck Lake Road, and Interstate 10

Interstate 10

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Plantation specifics

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

• Improved Land: 2590 acre (1,048.1 ha)
• Unimproved Land: 1400 acre (566.6 ha)
• Cash value of plantation: $
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  10,000
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $500
• Cash value of farm animals: $3000
• Number of slaves: 71
• Bushels of corn: 2,200
• Bales of cotton: 204

Agents on behalf of John Winthrop:

• R.S.D. Hays
• T.W. Lawrence

The owner

John S. Winthrop was a native of New Bern

New Bern, North Carolina

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, North Carolina

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. Information shows that in 1860, Winthrop was still a legal minor

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. Due to the SS Home

SS Home

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wreck of 1837, Winthrop was due to receive a large property inheritance originally going to Henrietta Smith, his great-grandmother and mother

Mother

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 of the deceased Mrs. Hardy Croom of Goodwood Plantation

Goodwood Plantation

Goodwood Plantation was a medium sized cotton plantation of about 1,675 acres in central Leon County, Florida, established by Hardy Bryan Croom. It is located at 1500 Miccosukee Road. The plantation was added to the U.S...

. John Winthrop, like other planters, would feel the effects of the American Civil War

American Civil War

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 and lose plantation land. Winthrop eventually built a fine home in Tallahassee in 1890.

John Winthrop's home

The below photos are of John S. Winthrop's home at 610 N. Monroe Street in Tallahassee

Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, and is the 128th largest city in the United States. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2010, the population recorded by...

. The home was built in 1890 by John and his wife, Lilia Chouteau Winthrop. It later went to John's son Francis B. Winthrop and wife Gertude Chittenden Withrop who lived there from 1910-1925. Guy Winthrop and wife Ada Belle Winthrop inhabited after.