Orchard Pond Plantation

Orchard Pond Plantation was a large forced-labor farm originally growing cotton on 8754 acres, (35+1⁄2 km2) developed and owned in the 19th century by Richard Keith Call, attorney, planter and future Territorial Governor, in what is now northwestern Leon County, Florida, United States.

[1] The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Orchard Pond Plantation had the following: According to data in the United States Census of 1860, Richard Keith Call was the third-largest slaveholder in Leon County.

Call began to concentrate on agricultural experiments such as Florida hemp and livestock improvements.

[5] It contains some of the most diverse wetlands in the Red Hills Region, with flowing streams, isolated lakes, and river floodplain and swamps.

Various views of Orchard Pond's plantation house, a 2-story brick home with 8 support columns, 4 for each floor.