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Pine Hill Plantation Papers, 1832-1926, Date acquired: 07/31/1965

 

Summary

Extent:
2.00 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Pine Hill Plantation Papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_0-204

Background

Scope and content:

Includes materials on the American Civil War, the Bradford-Eppes family including Susan Bradford Eppes and Dr. Edward Bradford, plantation life, land and mortgages, banking, tomb inscriptions from the cemetery in Pine Hill, Florida, sheet music for "Twenty Years Ago" by J. E. McCullune, pamphlets from Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as genealogical data on the Eppes-Bradford family. Photographs include members of the Bradford-Eppes family, John Wilkes Booth, Louise Covington, and a United States Coast Guard Signal Service Station in Palm Beach, Florida. Includes manuscripts for the books Negro of the Old South and Through Some Eventful Years, both by Susan Bradford Eppes.

Select materials from the Pine Hill Plantation Papers have been digitized and are available through the FSU Digital Library.

Biographical / historical:

Susan Branch Bradford Eppes and her husband, Nicholas Ware Eppes owned and operated Pine Hill Plantation. Mrs. Eppes was born at Pine Hill Plantation, Leon County, March 8, 1848 and died July 2, 1942, in Tallahassee. Mr. Eppes, was born November 1,1843 in Tallahassee. Mrs. Eppes was a well-known historian and author. Mr. Eppes was a Confederate Veteran, planter, and Leon County's Commissioner of Public Instruction.

Acquisition information:

Purchased from Joseph J. Jones Jr.

Subsequent additions were received October 27, 1965 (MSS 0-205) and May 7, 1966 (MSS 0-206).

Processing information:

Processed August 1965 (MSS 0-204), November 1965 (MSS 0-205), August 1967 (MSS 0-206) and June 1991 (MSS 91-11).

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Pine Hill Plantation Papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_0-204

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA