Ingleside Plantation was a forced-labor farm of located in extreme northeast Leon County, Florida and established by Joel C. Blake. In 1860, Blake was enslaving 116 people to work his land, which was mostly devoted to producing cotton as a cash crop. Blake, who was 29 years old in 1860, married Laura Parish, some relation to his mother. He founded Ingleside Plantation by purchasing land to the east of Blakely Plantation. Blake later joined the Confederate States Army and was killed on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg. Ingleside would later become Ring Oak Plantation, a private hunting plantation co-owned by David Sinton Ingalls and Robert Livingston Ireland, Jr. Location Ingleside was bounded on the east by the shores of Lake Miccosukee and would have been bound on the west by Blake's mother's Blakely Plantation. Today, the land is County Road 59 (Veterans Memorial Drive). 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. Plantation statistics The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the Blakely Plantation had the following: Improved Land: Unimproved Land: Cash value of plantation: $25,000 Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $1200 Cash value of farm animals: $5,000 Number of enslaved: 116 Bushels of corn: 7000 Bales of cotton: 181 External links Letter from Joel Blake to his wife Laura References Rootsweb Plantations Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Sschedules Florida Historical Markers Program Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968. Plantations in Leon County, Florida Cotton plantations in Florida