Bannerman Plantation

Bannerman Plantation was an approximately 1,500-acre forced-labor farm established by 1852 or earlier by Charles Bannerman, a native of North Carolina, in Leon County, Florida, north of the former community of Meridian and near Tallahassee. Its Greek Revival and Federal style plantation house is a two-story dwelling with eight columns and porches wrapping partway around both floors, and by 1860 Bannerman held 67 enslaved people to work the property, which that year's agricultural census recorded as having 700 acres of improved land and producing 4,000 bushels of corn and 120 bales of cotton. The plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 2002 for its importance to understanding antebellum Florida agriculture and slavery.