Tallahassee, Florida: County seat of Leon County, Florida, USA and Florida federated state capital city
Tallahassee is the capital city of the U.S.
state of Florida. As of 2020 Tallahassee has a population of 196,169 people.
Tallahassee | |
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| City of Tallahassee | |
Tallahassee skyline Florida State Capitol Cascades Park Carnegie Library at FAMU Museum of Florida History Gallies Hall | |
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| Motto: "Florida's Capital City" | |
 Location within Leon County and the state of Florida | |
  Tallahassee Location within Florida  Tallahassee Location within the United States | |
| Coordinates: 30°27′18″N 84°15′12″W / 30.45500°N 84.25333°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Florida |
| County | Leon |
| Established | 1824 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council–Manager |
| Area | |
| • Total | 104.74 sq mi (271.27 km2) |
| • Land | 101.85 sq mi (263.80 km2) |
| • Water | 2.89 sq mi (7.47 km2) |
| Elevation | 203 ft (62 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 196,169 |
| • Rank | 127th, U.S. |
| • Density | 1,926.00/sq mi (743.64/km2) |
| • Urban | 252,934 (US: 162nd) |
| • Urban density | 2,016.1/sq mi (778.4/km2) |
| • Metro | 385,145 (US: 140th) |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code(s) | 32300–32399 |
| Area code | 850 |
| FIPS code | 12-70600 |
| GNIS feature ID | 308416 |
| Website | www |
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The name comes from the Apalachee Native American words: talwa meaning town, and ahassee meaning old.
Tallahassee was created as the capital of Florida during the territory's second legislative session. It was chosen as the midpoint between St. Augustine and Pensacola, which had been the capitals of the Spanish and British colonies of East Florida and West Florida, respectively. (At that time, very few people lived in the swamps of South Florida.) The first session of Florida's Legislative Council–as a territory of the United States–met on July 22, 1822 at Pensacola and members from St. Augustine traveled fifty-nine days by water to attend. The second session was in St. Augustine and required western delegates to travel perilously around the peninsula on a twenty-eight day trek. During this session, it was decided that future meetings should be held at a half-way point to reduce the distance. Two appointed commissioners selected Tallahassee, at that point an abandoned Apalachee settlement, as a halfway point. In 1824, the third legislative session met there in a crude log capitol. Also in 1824, Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, returned for a grand tour of the United States. The US Congress voted to give him $200,000 (the same amount he had given the colonies in 1778), US citizenship, and the Lafayette Land Grant, 36 square miles (93 km2) of land that today includes large portions of Tallahassee. In 1845, a Greek revival masonry structure was erected as the Capitol building in time for statehood.
In 1977, a 23-story high-rise Capitol building designed by architect Edward Durell Stone was completed. It is now the third-tallest state capitol building in the United States. In 1978, the old capitol was scheduled for demolition, but the State Of Florida decided to keep the Old Capitol as a museum and point of interest.
The city is the location of two important universities, Florida State University and Florida A&M University.
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