The Museum of Florida History gives a real overview of the culture of the paleo-Indians in the Tallahassee region and the history of the Civil War, Florida’s industrial development and the Civil Rights movement. The address is 500 South Bronough St. Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250. Further information is available at museumoffloridahistory.com [Read more...]
Museums and monuments
March 5, 2011 By
Spanish colonization of the Tallahassee region
February 11, 2011 By
The colonization of the Americas tied in with the history of Spain. Rumours of vast riches of gold and silver induced the Spanish monarchy to support expeditions to the Americas for the purpose of exploration, conquest, settlement and political rule. In the 16th century there were plenty of desperate young men from the lower nobility to lead such expeditions, accompanied by administrators working for the Spanish King. More information can be found at museumoffloridahistory.com [Read more...]
The history of the slave trade and emancipation in Tallahassee
February 7, 2011 By
From the 1780s the growing demand for cotton and the rich soil of the ‘Red Hills’ region near Tallahassee led to the establishment of many large plantations. You can visit a notable one at the Goodwood Museum and Gardens goodwoodmuseum.org. At the time slavery was an integral part of this form of intensive agriculture. Many of the slaves had been forcibly separated from families and transported from Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas, where changes in farming had diminished demand for slave labour there. [Read more...]
The Apalachee Indians
February 3, 2011 By
The history of the Apalachee people goes back to at least AD 1000. The Apalachee people lived in villages across the region. They cultivated squash, beans and maize and hunted deer and wild boar. Between communities they traded raw materials and hand-made items. As such they are recognised as being part of a network extending from the Hudson Bay to the top of the Florida Panhandle, known as the Mississippian Culture. [Read more...]
A brief history of Tallahassee
January 10, 2011 By
The name “Tallahassee” is a Muskogean Indian word frequently interpreted as “old fields.” This likely springs from the Creek Indians who migrated from Georgia and Alabama to this area in the latter eighteenth and early 19th centuries. On arrival, they found huge areas of cleared land formerly occupied by the Apalachee clan. Earlier, the Mississippian Indians built mounds near Lake Jackson around AD 1200, which survive today in the Lake Jackson Archaeological State Park. [Read more...]
