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People viewing sundial in front of the main house at Goodwood Plantation in Tallahassee, Florida.
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N2008- 5, Photographic collection, ca 1962-1974; Box 24a
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Richard Parks began working at Evon Streetman Photography in Tallahassee ca. 1963. Streetman later sold the business and studio to Parks when she moved to Gainesville about 1965. The studio was renamed Richard Parks Photography.
The land for this plantation was part of the Lafayette Grant and was purchased by Hardy Bryan Croom, eldest son of a wealthy North Carolina planter, in 1835. After construction of the house began the entire Croom family perished off Cape Hatteras in 1837 when the steamship "Home", in which they were traveling to Florida, was destroyed. The house remained unfinished while relatives of Hardy and his wife Frances fought what became a landmark case all the way to the Supreme Court. It was decided that in all cases where an entire family is destroyed, that the last member of the family assumed alive would inherit, and his heirs would receive the estate. It was assumed that Hardy Croom would have survived the longest and his brother Bryan inherited the majority of the estate including Goodwood, which he finished about 1840.
The house was sold in 1856 to Arvah Hopkins, and the family lived there until the middle 1880s. In 1885 the heirs of Hopkins sold the estate to Dr. William Arrowsmith, surgeon-general to the Italian Garibaldi, who brought with him some of the paintings and furnishings still in the house. In 1911 Mrs. Arrowsmith sold Goodwood to Mrs. Fannie Tiers who remodeled the house to a Mount Vernon design and replaced the wrought iron with Georgian columns. Mrs. Tiers then sold the home to Senator William C. Hodges.
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Parks, Richard. People viewing sundial in front of the main house at Goodwood Plantation in Tallahassee, Florida. 1967. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/46749>, accessed 17 June 2026.
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Parks, Richard. People viewing sundial in front of the main house at Goodwood Plantation in Tallahassee, Florida. 1967. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/46749>
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(State Archives of Florida/Parks)
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