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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.
The CSS Tallahassee was a twin-screw steamer and cruiser in the Confederate States Navy, purchased in 1864, and used for commerce raiding off the Atlantic coast. She later operated under the names CSS Olustee and CSS Chameleon .
The history of Tallahassee, Florida, much like the history of Leon County, dates back to the settlement of the Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, the region was colonized by Europeans, becoming part of Spanish Florida. In 1819, the Adams–Onís Treaty ceded Spanish Florida, including modern-day Tallahassee, to the United States.
Aug. 9—THOMASVILLE — First Commerce Credit Union (FCCU) recently donated $5,000 to establish the new First Commerce Credit Union scholarship for students at Southern Regional Technical College.
James R. Ford (December 1, 1925 – October 11, 2017) was an American educator, politician, and businessman. In 1972, Ford became the first African-American mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, and the first Black mayor of a U.S. state capital city.
Governor's Square is a super-regional shopping mall located on Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee, Florida.Its two-level design was a first for northern Florida when it opened in 1979, [3] and was for many years the newest of two enclosed malls in the Tallahassee area, the other being The Centre of Tallahassee, formerly the Tallahassee Mall.
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Forerunners Courageous: Stories of Frontier Florida (1971) Divoll, Leslie. Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources, "The Grove Tallahassee", Florida Historic Structure Report, Part I. Tallahassee, FL, 1992; Doherty, Herbert J. and Richard Keith Call: Southern Unionist.