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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 373 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TALLAHASSEE , the See also:

capital of See also:Florida, U.S.A., and the See also:county seat of See also:Leon county, in the W. See also:part of the See also:state, about 40 M. E. of the See also:Apalachicola See also:river and 20 M. from the Gulf of See also:Mexico, about midway by railway between See also:Jacksonville and See also:Pensacola. Pop. (1900) 2981 (1755 negroes); (1910) 5018; in 1900 the See also:population of the county was 19,887, of whom 16,000 were negroes. Tallahassee is served by the Seaboard See also:Air See also:Line and the See also:Georgia, Florida & See also:Alabama See also:railways. The See also:city is finely situated on a See also:hill, about 300 ft. above See also:sea-level, and the streets are wide and well-shaded. The See also:principal buildings are the State Capitol, Grecian in See also:architecture, the Federal See also:Building, and the County See also:Court See also:House. In the Episcopal See also:cemetery two monuments See also:mark the See also:graves of See also:Charles See also:Louis See also:Napoleon Achille See also:Murat (1801-1847), the eldest son of See also:Joachim Murat, and of his wife See also:Catherine (1803-1867), the daughter of See also:Col. See also:Bird C. See also:Willis of See also:Virginia and a See also:grand-niece of See also:George See also:Washington.' Tallahassee is the seat of the Florida See also:Female See also:College, co-See also:ordinate with the State University for men, and the State Normal and See also:Industrial School (for negroes), an agricultural and See also:mechanical college. About 17 M. S. of Tallahassee, in Wakulla county, is the Wakulla See also:Spring, about ro6 ft. deep, one of the largest of the remarkable springs of Florida.

Tallahassee's name is of See also:

Seminole origin, and means, it is said, " tribal See also:land." During a See also:war with the See also:Apalachee See also:Indians in 1638 the Spaniards, according to tradition, fortified a hill W. of the city, where the Fort St Luis See also:Place, a See also:plantation ' Murat settled here about 1821, became a naturalized See also:American See also:citizen, relinquishing his claim to the See also:crown of See also:Naples, and lived here for much of the See also:time until his See also:death, holding successively the See also:office of See also:alderman, See also:mayor and postmaster of the city, and devoting some of his leisure to the preparation of three books, describing See also:political and social conditions in See also:America, the last of which, Ex-position See also:des principes du gouvernement republicain tel qu'il a ete perfectionne en Amerique (1838), was translated into many See also:languages and was very popular in See also:Europe. After his death his wife lived in what is still known as the Murat See also:Homestead, about 2 m. W. of Tallahassee, and after the American See also:Civil War she received an See also:annuity of 30,000 francs from Napoleon III. See also:mansion, now stands. About 1818 most of the Indians were expelled from the vicinity, and a See also:settlement was made by the whites. In 1824 Tallahassee, then virtually uninhabited, was formally chosen by the See also:United States See also:Government as the capital of the Territory of Florida, and it continued as the capital after the See also:admission of Florida into the See also:Union as a state in 1845. It was a residential centre for well-to-do planters before the Civil War, and Bellair, 6 m. S., now in ruins, was a fashionable See also:pleasure resort. On the loth of See also:January 1861 a state See also:convention adopted at Tallahassee an See also:Ordinance of See also:Secession.

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