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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EA6_capitol-of-florida_Tallahassee-FL.html
Capitol of Florida. . The Capitol site was selected before Tallahassee was founded. Three log buildings housed the government in 1824. A wing of the permanent Capitol, financed by sale of city lots, was built in 1826 but was later torn down. Anoth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EA5_selection-of-floridas-capital_Tallahassee-FL.html
Selection of Florida's Capital. . Under Spanish rule Pensacola was the capital of West Florida, while East Florida's capital was St. Augustine. In 1821 the U.S. took possession and in 1822 William P. Duval succeeded Andrew Jackson as territorial g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDC_coach-alonzo-jake-gaither-home_Tallahassee-FL.html
Coach Alonzo "Jake" Gaither Home. . This brick house was the home of legendary Florida A&M University (FAMU) football coach Alonzo "Jake" Gaither and his wife, Sadie, a FAMU English professor. The couple regularly hosted sports and publi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23IL_original-lincoln-high-school_Tallahassee-FL.html
Lincoln School served as the primary public education institution for African Americans in Leon County from 1869 to 1969. Established in 1869 as one of only two Freedman's Bureau schools in Florida to educate newly freed slaves. It was named after…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23EL_rutgers-house-tallahassee-garden-club-center_Tallahassee-FL.html
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Rutgers House
This house was built by George Proctor, a free African American in 1848 for City Councilman and Territorial Treasurer Henry Rutgers. The doors and woodwork were fashioned from mahogany, and other lumber was hand-hewn fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WJB_chandlers-tourist-camp-historical_Tallahassee-FL.html
In 1915, construction began on the Dixie Highway system that linked Florida with the Midwest via highways running from Michigan through Tallahassee along Old St. Augustine Road toward Miami. In the 1920s, the number of auto tourists visiting Flori…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ICC_the-florida-a-m-university-hospital-1911-1971_Tallahassee-FL.html
The first healthcare facility in Florida for African-Americans was the Florida A&M College (FAMC) Hospital, known as the Florida A&M University (FAMU) Hospital after 1953. The school's original two-story, 19-bed wooden sanitarium was built in 1911…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IB6_florida-a-m-university_Tallahassee-FL.html
Founded in 1887 as the State Normal College for Colored Students, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is the only historically state supported educational facility for African Americans in Florida. It has always been co-education…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IB4_prince-and-princess-murat_Tallahassee-FL.html
Prince Achille Murat was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte and the son of General Jochaim Murat, King of Naples. He settled in Florida in 1825, and as attorney, county judge, and director of Tallahassee's Union Bank, he played an active role in pub…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IB2_major-general-david-lang_Tallahassee-FL.html
David Lang was born on May 9, 1838 in Camden County, Georgia. After graduating from the Georgia Military Academy in 1857, he moved to Florida and worked as a surveyor for Suwannee County. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private a…