Moved in 1831 to Leon County, Florida from Halifax County, NC with his three brothers. Developed "Water Oak Plantation", near his brother Ned's plantation "Pine Hill" some ten miles north of Tallahassee. His son Capt. Richard H. Bradford was the first soldier killed in Florida in the War Between the States. His mother died at his home in Florida in 1838.
"Dr. Bradford, at sixty-two the second oldest of the three Bradford brothers living at that time, made his home at Pine Hill, his planatation house across the Thomasville Road from and somewhat north of the Lester [Captain William Lester] house. Bradford's holdings extended for four miles northward along the Thomasville Road, and he shared with Lester the shoreline of Lake Iamonia's horseshoe bend. This part of his estate was called Horseshoe Plantation while that nearer his house was called Pine Hill." [p.11-12, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley]
"Dairy farming proved more successful than anything.....One planter, Richard H. Bradford, youngest of the four Bradford brothers who came to Florida, brought to his Water Oak Plantation just before the war the first representative of the Channel Island breeds, and for many years thereafter herds of Bradford and his decendants had a registered Jersey at their head.
Bradford's son R. F. Bradford started in the 1880's one of the two family dairy enterprises dating from that time which were still in operation in the mid-twentieth century. By 1883 Bradford, who had just reached manhood, had abandoned cotton-growing and begun operating a dairy and stock farm, with some grain and vegetables." (pg. 58, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley
"One family dairy operating during this period, that of R.F. (Bob) Bradford and his son R. H. Bradford, traced its beginning to the ante-bellum plantation of Richard Bradford. Richard Bradford's son Robert F. Bradford, Sr., gave up cotton farming in the eighties and devoted his 2000 acre farm on Lake Iamonia west of his father's Water Oak Plantation to livestock, dairying, and feed crops. By 1911 Robert F. Bradford, Jr., then twenty-seven, had joined his father in the enterprise, which increasingly became a dairy business. In that year one hundred Jersey cattle of the Bradfords ranged the shores of Lake Iamonia, feeding on the lush growth of maidencane, and over the hills nearby, beeding on broom sedge. The farm had two silos, among the first in the county; each cow had a name and books were kept on production.
Robert F. Bradford, Jr. continued the dairy at this location until 1935. After selling the farm, then aggregating 1015 acres, to Colonel Lloyd Griscom for $25 an acre, Bradford walked his herd of seventy-five cows to the western edge of Tallahassee and continued wholesale milk operations as the Leon County Milk Company. His son continued the dairy on this hundred acres until the city limits were extended around the farm in 1958. The younger Bradford then moved his dairy business to Jefferson County."
[pages 110-111, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley
"Dr. Bradford, at sixty-two the second oldest of the three Bradford brothers living at that time, made his home at Pine Hill, his planatation house across the Thomasville Road from and somewhat north of the Lester [Captain William Lester] house. Bradford's holdings extended for four miles northward along the Thomasville Road, and he shared with Lester the shoreline of Lake Iamonia's horseshoe bend. This part of his estate was called Horseshoe Plantation while that nearer his house was called Pine Hill." [p.11-12, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley]
"Dairy farming proved more successful than anything.....One planter, Richard H. Bradford, youngest of the four Bradford brothers who came to Florida, brought to his Water Oak Plantation just before the war the first representative of the Channel Island breeds, and for many years thereafter herds of Bradford and his decendants had a registered Jersey at their head.
Bradford's son R. F. Bradford started in the 1880's one of the two family dairy enterprises dating from that time which were still in operation in the mid-twentieth century. By 1883 Bradford, who had just reached manhood, had abandoned cotton-growing and begun operating a dairy and stock farm, with some grain and vegetables." (pg. 58, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley
"One family dairy operating during this period, that of R.F. (Bob) Bradford and his son R. H. Bradford, traced its beginning to the ante-bellum plantation of Richard Bradford. Richard Bradford's son Robert F. Bradford, Sr., gave up cotton farming in the eighties and devoted his 2000 acre farm on Lake Iamonia west of his father's Water Oak Plantation to livestock, dairying, and feed crops. By 1911 Robert F. Bradford, Jr., then twenty-seven, had joined his father in the enterprise, which increasingly became a dairy business. In that year one hundred Jersey cattle of the Bradfords ranged the shores of Lake Iamonia, feeding on the lush growth of maidencane, and over the hills nearby, beeding on broom sedge. The farm had two silos, among the first in the county; each cow had a name and books were kept on production.
Robert F. Bradford, Jr. continued the dairy at this location until 1935. After selling the farm, then aggregating 1015 acres, to Colonel Lloyd Griscom for $25 an acre, Bradford walked his herd of seventy-five cows to the western edge of Tallahassee and continued wholesale milk operations as the Leon County Milk Company. His son continued the dairy on this hundred acres until the city limits were extended around the farm in 1958. The younger Bradford then moved his dairy business to Jefferson County."
[pages 110-111, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley
Moved in 1831 to Leon County, Florida from Halifax County, NC with his three brothers. Developed "Water Oak Plantation", near his brother Ned's plantation "Pine Hill" some ten miles north of Tallahassee. His son Capt. Richard H. Bradford was the first soldier killed in Florida in the War Between the States. His mother died at his home in Florida in 1838.
"Dr. Bradford, at sixty-two the second oldest of the three Bradford brothers living at that time, made his home at Pine Hill, his planatation house across the Thomasville Road from and somewhat north of the Lester [Captain William Lester] house. Bradford's holdings extended for four miles northward along the Thomasville Road, and he shared with Lester the shoreline of Lake Iamonia's horseshoe bend. This part of his estate was called Horseshoe Plantation while that nearer his house was called Pine Hill." [p.11-12, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley]
"Dairy farming proved more successful than anything.....One planter, Richard H. Bradford, youngest of the four Bradford brothers who came to Florida, brought to his Water Oak Plantation just before the war the first representative of the Channel Island breeds, and for many years thereafter herds of Bradford and his decendants had a registered Jersey at their head.
Bradford's son R. F. Bradford started in the 1880's one of the two family dairy enterprises dating from that time which were still in operation in the mid-twentieth century. By 1883 Bradford, who had just reached manhood, had abandoned cotton-growing and begun operating a dairy and stock farm, with some grain and vegetables." (pg. 58, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley
"One family dairy operating during this period, that of R.F. (Bob) Bradford and his son R. H. Bradford, traced its beginning to the ante-bellum plantation of Richard Bradford. Richard Bradford's son Robert F. Bradford, Sr., gave up cotton farming in the eighties and devoted his 2000 acre farm on Lake Iamonia west of his father's Water Oak Plantation to livestock, dairying, and feed crops. By 1911 Robert F. Bradford, Jr., then twenty-seven, had joined his father in the enterprise, which increasingly became a dairy business. In that year one hundred Jersey cattle of the Bradfords ranged the shores of Lake Iamonia, feeding on the lush growth of maidencane, and over the hills nearby, beeding on broom sedge. The farm had two silos, among the first in the county; each cow had a name and books were kept on production.
Robert F. Bradford, Jr. continued the dairy at this location until 1935. After selling the farm, then aggregating 1015 acres, to Colonel Lloyd Griscom for $25 an acre, Bradford walked his herd of seventy-five cows to the western edge of Tallahassee and continued wholesale milk operations as the Leon County Milk Company. His son continued the dairy on this hundred acres until the city limits were extended around the farm in 1958. The younger Bradford then moved his dairy business to Jefferson County."
[pages 110-111, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley
"Dr. Bradford, at sixty-two the second oldest of the three Bradford brothers living at that time, made his home at Pine Hill, his planatation house across the Thomasville Road from and somewhat north of the Lester [Captain William Lester] house. Bradford's holdings extended for four miles northward along the Thomasville Road, and he shared with Lester the shoreline of Lake Iamonia's horseshoe bend. This part of his estate was called Horseshoe Plantation while that nearer his house was called Pine Hill." [p.11-12, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley]
"Dairy farming proved more successful than anything.....One planter, Richard H. Bradford, youngest of the four Bradford brothers who came to Florida, brought to his Water Oak Plantation just before the war the first representative of the Channel Island breeds, and for many years thereafter herds of Bradford and his decendants had a registered Jersey at their head.
Bradford's son R. F. Bradford started in the 1880's one of the two family dairy enterprises dating from that time which were still in operation in the mid-twentieth century. By 1883 Bradford, who had just reached manhood, had abandoned cotton-growing and begun operating a dairy and stock farm, with some grain and vegetables." (pg. 58, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley
"One family dairy operating during this period, that of R.F. (Bob) Bradford and his son R. H. Bradford, traced its beginning to the ante-bellum plantation of Richard Bradford. Richard Bradford's son Robert F. Bradford, Sr., gave up cotton farming in the eighties and devoted his 2000 acre farm on Lake Iamonia west of his father's Water Oak Plantation to livestock, dairying, and feed crops. By 1911 Robert F. Bradford, Jr., then twenty-seven, had joined his father in the enterprise, which increasingly became a dairy business. In that year one hundred Jersey cattle of the Bradfords ranged the shores of Lake Iamonia, feeding on the lush growth of maidencane, and over the hills nearby, beeding on broom sedge. The farm had two silos, among the first in the county; each cow had a name and books were kept on production.
Robert F. Bradford, Jr. continued the dairy at this location until 1935. After selling the farm, then aggregating 1015 acres, to Colonel Lloyd Griscom for $25 an acre, Bradford walked his herd of seventy-five cows to the western edge of Tallahassee and continued wholesale milk operations as the Leon County Milk Company. His son continued the dairy on this hundred acres until the city limits were extended around the farm in 1958. The younger Bradford then moved his dairy business to Jefferson County."
[pages 110-111, "From Cotton to Quail" by Clifton Paisley
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