Tallahassee Sentence Examples

Tallahassee is served by the Seaboard Air Line and the Georgia, Florida & Alabama railways.

The region includes the spring break favorite, Panama City, as well as the state capital, Tallahassee, Destin, Fort Walton Beach, and Pensacola.

Tallahassee is the capital of the state.

In 1852 Tallahassee established a public school; and in 1860 there were, according to a report of the United States census, 2032 pupils in the public schools of the state, and 4486 in " academies and other schools."

Tallahassee is home to Florida State University, Keiser University and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.

Before 1905 the state provided for higher education by the Florida State College, at Tallahassee, formerly the West Florida Seminary (founded in 1857); the University of Florida, at Lake City, which was organized in 1903 by enlarging the work of the Florida Agricultural College (founded in 1884); the East Florida Seminary, at Gainesville (founded 1848 at Ocala); the normal school (for whites) at De Funiak Springs; and the South Florida Military Institute at Bartow; but in 1905 the legislature passed the Buckman bill abolishing all these state institutions for higher education and establishing in their place the university of the state of Florida and a state Agricultural Experiment Station, both now at Gainesville, and the Florida Female College at Tallahassee, which has the same standards for entrance and for graduation as the state university for men.

Augustine, a hospital for the insane at Chattahoochee and a reform school at Marianna, all wholly supported by the state, and a Confederate soldiers' and sailors' home at Tallahassee, which is partially supported by the state.

In 1824 Tallahassee, then virtually uninhabited, was formally chosen by the United States Government as the capital of the Territory of Florida, and it continued as the capital after the admission of Florida into the Union as a state in 1845.

On the 10th of January 1861 a state convention adopted at Tallahassee an Ordinance of Secession.

According to the Tallahassee Democrat, Calvary Chapel filed a federal lawsuit Oct. 22 claiming unconstitutional censorship.

Tallahassee, Florida, is one of the most affordable places to retire.

Tallahassee's name is of Seminole origin, and means, it is said, "tribal land."