Blakely was a small cotton plantation of 900 acre (364.2 ha) located in extreme northeast 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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 and established by Miles Blake.

Location

Blakely was bounded on the east by Susan's son's Ingleside Plantation

Ingleside Plantation

Ingleside Plantation was a medium sized cotton plantation of located in extreme northeast Leon County, Florida and established by Joel C. Blake.-Location:...

 and would have been bound on the west by what is now County Road 59

State Road 59 (Florida)

State Road 59 runs north to south through the eastern Florida Panhandle, with a northern terminus at US 90 near Lloyd, and a southern terminus at US 98 in rural Jefferson County....

 (Veterans Memorial Drive). Blakely's northern boundary would now be Cypress Landing Road and to the south it would have bounded by the streets of Leland Circle and Indigo Lane.

Plantaton specifics

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

• Improved Land: 500 acre (202.3 ha)
• Unimproved Land: 400 acre (161.9 ha)
• Cash value of plantation: $
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  9,000
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $300
• Cash value of farm animals: $2,000
• Number of slaves: unknown
• Bushels of corn: 3,000
• Bales of cotton: 40

The owner

Blakely Plantation came into existence when Miles Blake came from North Carolina

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 in 1826. Miles' wife, Susan Parish Blake, was 53 years old in 1860 and took over ownership sometime prior to 1860. Susan's son Joel Blake established Ingleside Plantation

Ingleside Plantation

Ingleside Plantation was a medium sized cotton plantation of located in extreme northeast Leon County, Florida and established by Joel C. Blake.-Location:...

 east of Blakely.

Isham, Walter, and Joel Blake, Susan's sons, served in the Civil War

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 with Company K of the 5th Florida Infantry (see Leon County in the Civil War

Leon County in the Civil War

Leon County, Florida participated heavily in the Civil War. Leon County had 3 Confederate army camps: Camp Leon located in what is now Belair on the south side of Tallahassee, Camp Lay, and Camp Mary Davis.Leon County sent several of its sons off to the Civil War...

).

As of 1980, J. A. Cromartie, a Blake great-grandson, owned the proerty.