SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

Park Forest Plantation

Location: Boydton, Mecklenberg Co., VA
Constructed: ~1789

Associated surnames: Alexander

Associated Free White Names

• Mark Alexander: owner; Revolutionary War veteran
  • son Mark Alexander II: owner; U.S. Congressman; owned 217 slaves at the close of the Civil War
• Bakerville Family: connected by marriage

Associated Black Slave Names

Slaves of Park Forest Plantation
Contributed by Lloyd D. Smith

• John Anderson
• Lucy Bugg
• Ned Cook: headman
• Reuben Cook
• Hilliard
• Note: slaves of the surnames Alexander and Bakerville also resided on the plantation

Agriculture

• Tobacco, corn

Description of Associated Architecture

• Main house: burned

Other People Researching This Plantation

• Lloyd D. Smith, [email protected]

RESOURCES

• Park Forest Plantation originally submitted by Lloyd D. Smith. Thank you!!!