Southwood Plantation

Southwood Plantation was a large cotton plantation growing cotton on 5,000 acres (20 km2) located in southern Leon County, Florida, United States and owned by George Taliafero Ward.

Combined, Ward held 160 persons enslaved, produced 7500 bushels of corn and 500 bales of cotton.

[1][2] George Taliafero Ward was born in Kentucky in 1810 and moved to Tallahassee in 1825.

In that same year, Ward became Register of the Land Office, succeeding Samuel R. Overton.

From 1838 to 1839, Ward served on the Legislative Council from Leon County and attended the Constitutional Convention.