page_title: Francis Eppes Plantation
section_title: Owner
hierarchical_section_title: Francis Eppes Plantation / Owner
caption_attribution_description: English: This image was taken from the Florida Memory Project where it was image rc02521. Leader: kmKa0n Fixed field data: khbc Fixed field data: 030515s1881 in d key: AAP-1662 Local call number: rc02521 Title: [Portrait of Francis Wayles Eppes&#160;: Tallahassee, Florida] [graphic] Publication info: Not after 1881. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint&#160;: b&amp;w&#160;; 9 x 7 in. Series Title:(Reference collection.) Biographical note: 3 times mayors of Tallahassee and grandson of Thomas Jefferson. Born: 1801. Came to Tallahassee: 1827. *Moved to Orange County: 1869. Died: May 30, 1881. Personal subject:Eppes, Francis Wayles, 1801-1881--Portraits. Subject term: Portraits--Florida--Tallahassee. Subject term: Men--Florida--Tallahassee--Portraits. Geographic term: Tallahassee (Fla.) Shelf number: 17260. jgy
context_page_description: The Francis Eppes Plantation was a cotton plantation of 1,920 acres situated in east-central Leon County, Florida, United States and established by Francis W. Eppes in 1829.
context_section_description: Francis W. Eppes, VII, was a grandson of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson. Eppes came to Leon County in 1829 with his wife Mary and numerous slaves from Virginia, including some descendants of Betsy Hemmings, his nurse and a matriarch of the slave community at his childhood home of Millbrook. While the territory was under Spanish rule, Eppes served as Intendant (mayor) of Tallahassee.  He is noted for initiating the proposal to locate a state-supported seminary in Tallahassee, which eventually developed into Florida State University.
  Eppes sold his plantation during the Civil War for Confederate money.  He lost the remainder of his investment and slaves by 1865, when they were freed.  Eppes left Tallahassee for Orange County, Florida to begin citrus farming.
  Florida became part of the United States in 1821. As Francis Eppes arrived in Florida in 1829, at the time he was Intendant/mayor of Tallahassee, Florida was no longer ruled by Spain.
caption: Francis W. Eppes.
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