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List of Roses at Goodwood <strong>Plant</strong>ation<br />
Tallahassee, Florida<br />
Prior to and after 1931<br />
Goodwood <strong>Plant</strong>ation<br />
1931<br />
Florida<br />
Goodwood <strong>Plant</strong>ation was initially constructed in the 1840s on land acquired by Hardy Croom of North<br />
Carolina - a relative of Isaac Croom of Magnolia Grove in Greensboro, Alabama. While in route to Florida to take<br />
up residence, he, his wife and their children perished in the sinking of their steamship. Bryan Croom, Hardy’s<br />
brother, completed construction of the house and took up residence with his family.<br />
The family of Croom’s deceased sister-in-law sued Bryan for a portion of the estate he inherited from his<br />
brother. It was a complicated case that was not settled until 1857 when Bryan lost the case and had to sell<br />
Goodwood. It was purchased by Arvah Hopkins, whose family made it a popular center for Tallahassee society<br />
from 1857 to 1885. Unable to keep her family’s finances afloat after the Civil War and the death of her husband,<br />
Mrs. Hopkins sold Goodwood in 1885 to an Englishman and his family. Dr. William Arrowsmith died within<br />
months after his relocation to Goodwood but his wife Elizabeth continued in the house another 25 years.<br />
In 1911 she sold Goodwood to Mrs. Alexander (Fanny) Tiers, a wealthy widow related to the Fleischmann<br />
family, who had a plantation nearby. She never really spent that much time at Goodwood, but undertook extensive<br />
restoration of the house. The Goodwood seen today is largely due to her efforts.<br />
In 1925, Senator William C. Hodges bought the estate, supposedly to acquire a certain bed upstairs that his<br />
wife wanted but which could not be gotten out of the room. Goodwood remained at the center of Tallahassee<br />
society and politics. Senator Hodges died in 1940 and his widow married Thomas Hood, himself a widower. After<br />
her death in 1978, Mr. Hood began a planned restoration of the estate as a public museum. To further his goal, he<br />
establish a foundation, and upon his death in 1990, the Margaret E. Wilson Foundation assumed ownership.<br />
Six years after the Senator took up residence, in 1931, he undertook a list of all the roses growing at the<br />
estate, those that he himself was probably planting and those that were already growing there. The fact that the list<br />
contains 19 roses prior to 1931 and 111 newly installed roses indicates the grounds were extensive and in some way<br />
the names were still connected to the bushes, either physically, or by oral tradition.<br />
Although it has no author listed, it is most likely the work of Ms. Weej Broderson, rosarian at Goodwood.<br />
This list was submitted by George R. Stritikus<br />
Goodwood Roses - Prior to 1931<br />
(19 varieties)<br />
Archduke Charles<br />
Bon Silene<br />
Cecile Brunner<br />
Clothilde Soupert<br />
Cochet (Pink)<br />
Columbia (Sport of Ophelia, Harkness, p.81)<br />
Cornelia<br />
Duchess de Brabant<br />
Etoile de Hollande (HT,Welch)<br />
Franciska Kruger<br />
Frau Karl Druski<br />
General Jacqueminot<br />
Gruss Von Teplitz<br />
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