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On June 13, 2020, two community activists local to the Tallahassee area, 19-year old Oluwatoyin Salau and 75-year old Victoria Sims, were found murdered in Tallahassee, Florida. The suspect, Aaron Glee Jr., who was 49 at the time of the murders, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and felony murder among other charges.
The Greenwood Cemetery (est. 1937) is a historic cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. An African-American cemetery, Greenwood is located on Old Bainbridge Road, which originally the main route out of Tallahassee to the northwest. On June 5, 2003, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Knott House, a prominent building on Park Avenue. The banner is advertising the 2007 Florida Emancipation Day celebration. Park avenue once marked the northern boundary of Tallahassee. Outside of this boundary ran a 200 ft (61 m) dirt clearing designed to protect the city from Indian attacks. During the 19th century, the district was valued ...
The Tallahassee Police Department is investigating a suspicious death from Monday morning. Just before 11:30 a.m., officers arrived at a home in the 2200 block of West Pensacola Street, according ...
Knight Ridder operated the Tallahassee Democrat until August 3, 2005, when the newspaper was acquired by its current owner, the Gannett Company. At the time the paper was founded, Leon County and Florida as a whole were overwhelmingly Democratic. In the 1914 elections, Democratic candidates for two of Florida's congressional seats and for the ...
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The Grove: A Florida Home Through Seven Generations. Tallahassee: Sentry Press, 1998. Menton, Jane Aurell. The Grove: A Florida Home Through Seven Generations. Tallahassee, FL: Sentry Press, 1998, Paisley, Clifton; From Cotton To Quail, University of Florida Press, c1968. Florida Division of Historical Resources "A Brief History of the Grove ...
The first building to house the library was The Columns, one of the oldest remaining antebellum homes in the Leon County area, at Park Avenue and Adams Street (now the home of the James Madison Institute). In order to expand library services, the Junior League of Tallahassee donated a bookmobile to the library. The vehicle was later donated to ...