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The Capitol is at the intersection of Apalachee Parkway and South Monroe Street in downtown Tallahassee, Florida. The Historic Capitol, sometimes called "The Old Capitol", built in 1845, was threatened with demolition in the late 1970s when the new capitol building was built. [3]
During Florida Gov. Reuben Askew’s tenure, in 1978 the Capitol got a $6.5 million facelift to preserve a “symbol of Florida’s heritage.” How Florida's Old Capitol was saved and became a ...
Now known as the "old Capitol", it stands in front of the high-rise Capitol building built in the 1970s. [16] Tallahassee was in the heart of Florida's Cotton Belt—Leon County led the state in cotton production—and was the center of the slave trade in Florida. [17]
Florida Capitol Building 1845. In 1841, Francis W. Eppes, grandson of Thomas Jefferson and a successful cotton plantation owner became Intendant mayor of Tallahassee. Eppes served as mayor until 1844. Eppes described the town's Marion Race Course "A hotbed of vice, intemperance, gambling and profanity." He held that the rest of the town was ...
In honor of the bicentennial, the city of Tallahassee is rebuilding the original capitol log cabin which served as the first legislature building.
Museum model mirrors 200-year-old Capitol. Every Tallahassee resident knows the feeling of driving west on Apalachee Parkway, gliding up the hill, and witnessing the glory of the shiny red and ...
1843 - Great Fire strikes and burns much of downtown; Capitol building and county court house survives; 1845 State Capitol building completed. [2] Tallahassee becomes part of the new U.S. state of Florida. [2] 1846 - Southern Journal newspaper begins publication. [7] 1857 - Florida State College for Women founded. [1] 1865
A talk about Tallahassee's first legislature highlighted pivotal decisions made by the Territorial Council and Gov. William Duval in 1824