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Frenchtown (Tallahassee)
Frenchtown is a primarily African American neighborhood in Tallahassee, Florida. It is the oldest such neighborhood in the state. Origin Frenchtown originated from 19th century settlers who moved to the area from France. Their relocation was prompted by the July 4, 1825, Lafayette Land Grant which gave Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette a township in the U.S. of his choice. Many of his acquaintances came over and began to carry on with their lives. History The Frenchtown area was home to those French settlers that did not move west to New Orleans or back to France. After the Civil War, newly freed African-Americans moved to the Frenchtown section; it occupied low-lying, relatively undesirable land, and therefore was available. From the early 20th century this area became a hub of activity with growing businesses. From 1940—1945, Ray Charles lived in this community. Nat Adderley and brother Cannonball Adderley were known to have played here in their younger days. The Red Bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frenchtown Duplex - Tallahassee, Florida
Frenchtown may refer to: In the United States: * Frenchtown, California (other) ** Frenchtown, El Dorado County, California ** Frenchtown, Yuba County, California * Frenchtown (Tallahassee), a section of the city of Tallahassee, Florida * Frenchtown, Indiana * Frenchtown, Maryland (other) ** Frenchtown, Cecil County, Maryland ** Frenchtown (Perryville, Maryland) ** Frenchtown-Rumbly, Maryland * Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan ** Battle of Frenchtown, 1813 * French Town, Missouri * Frenchtown, Montana * Frenchtown Township, Antelope County, Nebraska * Frenchtown, New Jersey * Frenchtown, Darke County, Ohio * Frenchtown, Seneca County, Ohio * Frenchtown, Pennsylvania * Frenchtown, a section of the Fifth Ward in Houston, Texas * Frenchtown, United States Virgin Islands * A distinct neighborhood in Tomahawk, Wisconsin *Frenchtown, Washington See also * Frenchtown Historic District * Frenchtown Township (other) * Frenchtown High School, Frenchtown, Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman's Working Band House
Woman's Working Band House is a historic house in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. It is located at 648 W. Brevard St. in Frenchtown, the oldest surviving African-American community in Florida. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... on October 20, 2010. This completely restored National Register Property currently (2018) houses thB Sharps Jazz Club This house is one of the few recognized, extant properties financed jointly by rank and file and upper class African-American women. Its cornerstone was laid in 1921 by the Woman's icWorking Band and it was built to serve as an Old Folks Home. References National Register of Historic Places in Tallahassee, Florida African-American history of Florida Building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historic Districts In Florida
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Tallahassee, Florida
The history of Tallahassee, Florida, much like the History of Leon County, Florida, history of Leon County, dates back to the settlement of the Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, the region was European colonization of the Americas, colonized by Europeans, becoming part of Spanish Florida. In 1819, the Adams–Onís Treaty ceded Spanish Florida, including modern-day Tallahassee, to the United States. Tallahassee became a city and the state capital of Florida in 1821; the American takeover led to the settlements' rapid expansion as growing numbers of Plantation complexes in the Southern United States, cotton plantations began to spring up nearby, increasing Tallahassees' population significantly. Early history Tallahassee is situated within the Apalachee Province, home of the Apalachee, a Mississippian culture of agrarian people who farmed vast tracts of land. Their capital, Anhaica, was located within Tallahassee's city limits. The name "Tallahassee" is a Muskogean lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Lincoln High School
Lincoln High School (also known as Lincoln Academy) was a high school located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is commonly referred to as "Historic Lincoln High School" or "Old Lincoln". There is no connection with Leon County's current (and distant) Lincoln High School other than name. History Founding and early years Lincoln Academy opened in 1869 during Reconstruction as the first school for African Americans in Leon County, Florida. It was built by the Freedmen's Bureau. At one point it was one of only three schools in the state that provided high school to colored students. it was one of the best-equipped schools in the state and had an enrollment of 250. Its first location was at Copeland and Lafayette Streets, two blocks south of West Florida Seminary, FSU's predecessor. In 1872 fire destroyed the school, and the black students had no school until 1876, when it reopened in a new building on the west side of Copeland Streets, at Park Avenue, on what is today ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godby High School
Amos P. Godby High School is a public high school in Tallahassee, Florida, named for Amos P. Godby, who first served as a teacher and coach at Leon High School, and later became Leon County Superintendent and President and Secretary of the Florida Superintendents Association. History Amos P. Godby High School opened in 1966 at 1717 West Tharpe Street, Tallahassee, Florida, 32303. Its first senior class graduated in 1970. Principals *1966 - 1968: O. D. Roberts *1968 - 1970: Stan Hilaman *1970 - 1973: Paul Coley *1973 - 1977: John E. Lawrence *1977 - 1989: William J. Montford *1989 - 1999: Merry (McDaris) Ortega *1999 - 2001: Ben Koenig *2001 - 2006: Randy Pridgeon *2007 - 2011: Jean Ferguson *2011 - 2012: Gillian Gregory *2012 - 2017: Shelly Bell *2017–Present: Des ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon High School
Leon High School is a public high school in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is the oldest public high school in the state, and is a part of the Leon County Schools System. History Leon High School is one of the oldest high schools in the country. It was founded 14 years before Florida became a state. It was founded as Leon Academies in 1831 in Tallahassee, Leon County, and helped shape education in the capital city. In 1903 it became the Leon County Graded and High School, which was originally set as the first public high school in Florida, on the corner of Duval, Tennessee and Bronough Streets. In 1911, a need for more room for the growing student population led to the construction of a second Leon High School where the LeRoy Collins Public Library now stands. The current building at 550 East Tennessee Street was built in controversy. Built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for $500,000, citizens thought the school was too expensive, too far out of town and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon County Schools
Leon County Schools (LCS) is a school district headquartered in the LCS Admin Complex in Tallahassee, Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is the sole school district of Leon County, Florida, Leon County. History Prior to November 2004 the school district allowed parents to have their children moved to schools in proximity to where their parents worked. Public schools Elementary schools *Apalachee Elementary School (Est. 1969) *Astoria Park Elementary School (Est. 1969) *Bond Elementary School (Est. 1935, Current Structure Est. 2006) *Buck Lake Elementary School (Est. 1989) *Canopy Oaks Elementary School (Est. 1998) *The Chaires School, Chaires Elementary School (Est. 1929, Current structure Est. 1987) *J. Michael Conley Elementary School (Est. 2008) *DeSoto Trail Elementary School (Est. 1989) *Fort Braden K-8 School (Est. 1847, Current Structure Est. 1994) *Gilchrist Elementary School (Est. 1966) *Hartsfield Elementary School (Est. 1954) *Hawks Rise Elementary Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library
The LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library is a system of public libraries in Leon County, Florida. History In 1954, the American Association of University Women established a Friends of the Library group for Leon County to generate public support for a library in Tallahassee, Florida. Prior to that, the only public library in Tallahassee was the David S. Walker Library, which served white patrons only. The Leon County Public Library was established in May 1955 and the first Leon County free public library opened its doors on March 21, 1956, in 5,000 square feet of The Columns, one of the oldest remaining antebellum homes in the Leon County area, and located at Park and Adams. Close to 5,000 volumes were on its shelves. The Library moved to the old Elks Club building at 127 North Monroe Street in 1962, more than doubling its space to 12,000 square feet as opposed to the original library's size of 5,000 square feet. The Leon County Public Library became the Leon, Jefferson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannonball Adderley
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Adderley is perhaps best remembered for the 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", which was written for him by his keyboardist Joe Zawinul and became a major crossover hit on the pop and R&B charts. A cover version by the Buckinghams, who added lyrics, also reached No. 5 on the charts. Adderley worked with Miles Davis, first as a member of the Davis sextet, appearing on the seminal records ''Milestones'' (1958) and '' Kind of Blue'' (1959), and then on his own 1958 album '' Somethin' Else''. He was the elder brother of jazz trumpeter Nat Adderley, who was a longtime member of his band. Early life and career Julian Edwin Adderley was born on September 15, 1928, in Tampa, Florida to high school guidance counselor and cornet player Julian Carlyle Adderley and elementary school teacher Jessie Johnson. Elementary school cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, Florida, Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2020, the population was 196,169, making it the List of municipalities in Florida, 8th-largest city in the U.S state of Florida, and the List of United States cities by population, 126th-largest city in the United States. The population of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, Tallahassee metropolitan area was 385,145 . Tallahassee is the largest city in the Big Bend (Florida), Florida Big Bend and Florida Panhandle region, and the main center for trade and agriculture in the Big Bend (Florida), Florida Big Bend and Southwest Georgia regions. With a student population exceeding 70,000, Tallahassee is a college town, home to Florida State University, ranked the nation's 19th-best public university by ''U.S. News & World R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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