Rifle Point Plantation, Texas



 

OVERVIEW

 

Location

Rifle Point Plantation is located in McLennan County, Texas near the Brazos River by Waco.

 

Date Constructed/Founded

1862

 

Associated Surnames:

Gustine, Conner, Turner, Duncan, Thompson, Hitchcock, Minor, Dunbar, Macrery, Wood, McMurran, Chotard, Sessions, Marshall, Martin, Bisland, Buckner

 

Historical Notes

Farrar Benjamin Conner founded a second Rifle Point Plantation in 1862 when he moved the family’s slaves to Texas from their Louisiana plantations to keep the slaves out of the hands of the Union Troops. The first Rifle Point Plantation is in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

Rifle Point Plantation, Concordia Parish, LA

Berkeley Plantation, Adams Co., MS

Lake Place Plantation, Concordia Pa., LA

Killarney Plantation, Concordia Pa., LA

Spokane Plantation, Concordia Pa., LA

Innisfail Plantation (formerly Lake St. John Place), Concordia Parish, LA

Linden Grove Plantation, Concordia Pa., LA


 

Associated Free Persons


 

Associated Enslaved Persons

Most of the slaves from Rifle Point Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana were moved to Rifle Point Plantation, McLennan County, Texas in 1862.  Some ran away.  The rest returned to Rifle Point Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana in January 1866. 


 

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Miscellaneous Information

Jacob Stewart and Margaret Lightfoot, great great grandparents of Edward B Adams were among the slaves taken from Rifle Point Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana to Texas where the second Rifle Point Plantation was founded in 1862. Jacob ran away, made it back to the Louisiana/Mississippi area, and joined the Union troops in Natchez. He served in Company H, 6th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery from November 1863 to May 1866 when the unit was mustered out. Margaret came back from Texas to the Rifle Point Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana with most of the slaves in January 1866. Margaret later married Joe Hogan, another Rifle Point slave.


 

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