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Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2022, the estimated population was 201,731, [5] making it the eighth-most populous city in the state of Florida. [6] It is the principal city of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 390,992 as of 2022.
In 1824, the City of Tallahassee, the county seat and only incorporated city in Leon County, was established following a decision by the state legislature to locate the capital of the new Florida Territory midway between the population centers of St. Augustine and Pensacola. The city was not formally incorporated until December 1825, with the ...
Florida may just have the most inconvenient capital in the country. This week, in Florida Time, we discover how Tallahassee became the state capital.
1825 - City of Tallahassee incorporated. [4] 1826 Florida State Capitol building construction begins. [2] City council holds first council elections (mayor & councilmen elected); municipal government of the City of Tallahassee begins operations; 1829 - City Cemetery in use. 1831 - Williams House built. [2] 1832 - First Presbyterian Church ...
"Centrally located between St. Augustine and Pensacola, Tallahassee was established as the capital in 1824 and not only symbolized compromise between eastern and western parts of the state but ...
Tallahassee Boy Scouts created a replica of Florida's first capitol in 1924, as Tallahassee celebrated the city's 100th anniversary. The legislature met in the building in November-December 1824 ...
Members of the Florida Senate gathered on the capitol steps for a group portrait c. 1889 Citizens engaging in a snowball fight on the capitol steps during the Great Blizzard of 1899 Former Senate chamber in the Old Capitol. Tallahassee was named Florida's capital in 1824, midway between the then-largest cities in the state, St. Augustine and ...
The commissioners charged by the government of the unified Florida to select a permanent capital selected Tallahassee, then between the two major cities of Florida, Pensacola and Saint Augustine, as the state capital, in 1823. [27] The White people expelled the Native Americans, who were opposed to leaving their land, before settling ...