Montgomery County, Texas - Greenwood Plantation

Greenwood Plantation The Greenwood Plantation Project is a collection of information about the lives of plantation owner Green Wood, his family and the hundreds of slaves that made his success in both Montgomery, Alabama and Montgomery, Texas possible. Between 1844 and 1866, Wood kept a record of purchases, productivity and most importantly people, which are documented in the 16 existing volumes known as the “Greenwood Plantation” account books. Researchers have used these books along with census, county, and probate records to build the family trees of at least 43 unique enslaved families and well over 200 individual slaves that lived and worked on the Greenwood Plantation in Texas and has expanded to include hundreds of their descendants, many of whom might never have known the identities of their enslaved ancestors otherwise.


 * Montgomery County African American Cemeteries

Related Pages

African American Resources for Texas

African American Digital Bookshelf

Texas, United States Genealogy

Montgomery County, Texas Genealogy