Ingleside Plantation was a forced-labor farm of 2,620 acres (1,060 ha) located in extreme northeast Leon County, Florida and established by Robert W. Alston and his family.
In 1860, Blake was enslaving 116 people to work his land, which was mostly devoted to producing cotton as a cash crop.
Blake later joined the Confederate States Army and was killed on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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.
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the Blakely Plantation had the following: