over debts. In 1860, the US Census reported 63 slaves at Verdura had produced 160 bales of cotton and of corn. The plantation suffered after the Civil War from the loss of slave labor and a depression in the cotton market. After the main house burned in 1885, the plantation was abandoned. It was sold by the Chaires family in 1948. See also Plantations of Leon County, Florida National Register of Historic Places listings in Leon County, Florida Notes References Plantations in Leon County, Florida Cotton plantations in Florida Burned houses in the United States