Burgesstown Plantation

Burgesstown Plantation was a large forced-labor farm of 8,100 acres (3,300 ha) in northern Leon County, Florida, United States established by Frederich R. Cotten between 1850 and 1855.

Cotten used the forced labor of enslaved people to work his land, which was primarily devoted to growing cotton as a cash crop.

Burgesstown extended to the west as far as the Ochlockonee River, to the east it would cross what is now Meridian Road and border the southern edge of Lake Iamonia.

The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Burgesstown Plantation had the following: Frederick Cotten also had control over a farm of his deceased brother which produced 185 bales of cotton.

Cotten used the now extra area to graze his $17,600 worth of livestock including over 1000 swine, 16 work oxen, 60 dairy cows, 72 mules and asses, and 15 horses.