George W. Scott Plantation
The George W. Scott Plantation was a 1036-acre (4 km2) cotton plantation in central Leon County, Florida, United States established by George Washington Scott in 1852 and located 2 miles (3 km) south of Tallahassee. Plantation specifics The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that George W. Scott Plantation had the following: Improved Land: 60 acres (¼ km2) Unimproved Land: 50 acres (¼ km2) Cash value of plantation: $4000 Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1500 Cash value of farm animals: $5000 Number of slaves: N/A Bushels of corn: N/A Bales of cotton: N/A The owners Colonel George W. Scott, merchant and farmer, came to Leon in 1852 from Pennsylvania. He was said to have a model farm. Scott fought in the American Civil War as head of "Scott's Cavalry". In 1868 Scott ran for governor as a Democratic-Conservative but was defeated. Scott experimented in a variety of crops and planted of sugar cane, cabbage, collards, rutabagas, Dutch turnips. Scott also created a 16-foot (5 m) overshot waterwheel from a pond going to corn, sugar and cotton processing. Scott came up with a revolutionary fertilizer which combined cottonseed with bone meal. Bone was obtained by black farm hands who earned