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Levi Jordan Plantation
The Levi Jordan Plantation is located on Farm to Market Road 521, southwest of the city of Brazoria, in the county of Brazoria, in the U.S. state of Texas. It was one of the largest sugar and cotton producing plantations in Texas during the mid-19th century. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1967.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/viewform.asp?atlas_num=5039009570&site_name=Jordan,+Levi,+Plantation&class=5000 )〕
== Levi Jordan ==
Levi Jordan, born in 1793, was a plantation owner in Union County, Arkansas in 1848. However Jordan was not as successful as he wanted to be. It is for this reason that Jordan and twelve of his slaves traveled to Brazoria County, Texas in 1848. It was here that Jordan purchased of land from Samuel M. William for $4.00 an acre. Shortly thereafter, Jordan returned to Arkansas to sell his plantation. He also traveled to Louisiana, where Jordan’s daughter Emily, his son-in-law James McNeil, and his grandchildren resided, to sell that land so they could all pack up and move to Texas. Jordan wanted to develop a land that would survive many generations and “outlive” him, according to the oral history of the family. During the time that Jordan was traveling back to Arkansas and Louisiana to tie up loose ends, the twelve slaves that Jordan took to Texas stayed behind in order to get the land ready for development.
The primary cash crops during the first period of the life of the Levi Jordan Plantation were cotton and sugar. In fact, to make even a bigger profit, Jordan built the largest sugar factory in the entire county. Not only did Jordan use this factory to process his sugar cane, but so did the planters surrounding his plantation. The Jordan Plantation was also involved in the trading of slaves. According to records, Jordan imported and raised slaves in order to trade later. After the Civil War, workforce for the production of sugar declined. Furthermore, after the Emancipation in 1865, sugar was produced in very small quantities because the labor needed to man the lands was no longer available. Even though sugar on the Levi Jordan Plantation declined significantly, the cotton production grew due to sharecropping. This is because in 1865, after the Emancipation, Jordan employed many of his former slaves and their descendants as sharecroppers to work and maintain the cotton fields.
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