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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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