Water Oak Plantation was a was a small cotton plantation of 1,840 acres (740 ha) located in northern Leon County, Florida, USA established by Richard Bradford.
Read more about Water Oak Plantation: Location, Plantation Specifics, The Founder, The 1900s
Famous quotes containing the words water, oak and/or plantation:
“We were uncertain whether the water floated the land, or the land held the water in its bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)