Goodwood Plantation
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| Location | Leon County, Florida |
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| Nearest city | Tallahassee |
| Coordinates | 30°27′29″N 84°15′28″W / 30.45806°N 84.25778°WCoordinates: 30°27′29″N 84°15′28″W / 30.45806°N 84.25778°W |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP Reference # | 72000334 |
| Added to NRHP | June 30, 1972 |
Goodwood Plantation (also known as Old Croom Mansion) was a medium sized cotton plantation of about 1,675 acres (7 km2) in central Leon County, Florida, established by Hardy Bryan Croom. It is located at 1600 Miccosukee Road. The plantation was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1972.
The plantation home is now a historic house museum known as Goodwood Museum & Gardens that features original family furniture, porcelain, textiles, glassware, art and personal effects. The rooms have been decorated to appear in the years surrounding World War I. The house is visited by guided tour.
The grounds cover 16 acres (65,000 m2), and the gardens also feature an early 20th-century design. Admission to the gardens is free.
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Goodwood Plantation had the following:
The Croom family of Lenoir County, North Carolina began purchasing land in North Florida in the 1820s, including plantations in Mariana, Quincy and Tallahassee. Hardy Bryan Croom, a planter and recognized naturalist, discovered the rare Torreya tree. He began amassing the land for Goodwood, purchasing about 640 acres (2.6 km2) of the Lafayette Land Grant in 1833.
On Saturday, October 7, 1837, Hardy Bryan Croom and his immediate family boarded the steam packet liner S.S. Home in New York City bound for Charleston when it sank during the 1837 Racer's Storm. Hardy Bryan Croom and family were killed in the wreck. His brother, Bryan Croom, inherited the property.
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