Ingleside Plantation was a medium sized cotton plantation of 2620 acre (1,060.3 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 Joel C. Blake.

Location

Ingleside was bounded on the east by the shores of Lake Miccosukee

Lake Miccosukee

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 and would have been bound on the west by Joel's mother's Blakely Plantation

Blakely Plantation

Blakely was a small cotton plantation of located in extreme northeast Leon County, Florida and established by Miles Blake.-Location:Blakely was bounded on the east by Susan's son's Ingleside Plantation and would have been bound on the west by what is now County Road 59...

. Today, the land is 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). Ingleside'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 statistics

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

• Improved Land: 1500 acre (607 ha)
• Unimproved Land: 1140 acre (461.3 ha)
• Cash value of plantation: $
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  25,000
• Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1200
• Cash value of farm animals: $5,000
• Number of slaves: 116
• Bushels of corn: 7000
• Bales of cotton: 181

The owner

Joel C. Blake was 29 years old in 1860. He married Laura Parish, some relation to his mother. Joel's Ingleside Plantation came into existence when Joel Blake purchased land to the east of Blakely Plantation. Blake joined the Confederacy

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 and was killed on July 2, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg

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.

• See a letter from Joel to Laura

Ingleside would later become Ring Oak Plantation

Ring Oak Plantation

Ring Oak Plantation is a large quail hunting plantation located in northeast Leon County, Florida.- Origins :Ring Oak originally was the land of antebellum cotton plantations Blakely Plantation and Ingleside Plantation....

, a private hunting plantation.