Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Tallahassee

TALLAHASSEE, a city, capital of the State of Florida, and county-seat of Leon co.; on the Carrabelle, Tallahassee, and Georgia, and the Florida Central and Peninsula railroads; 194 miles E. of Mobile, Ala. Here are the State Normal, Agricultural and Industrial Institute for Colored Pupils, State Seminary, several libraries, artesian water plants, a street railroad. National and State banks, and a number of weekly newspapers. Tallahassee is in a fruit-growing and farming section. It has cotton, cigar and ice factories, and railroad construction and repair shops, and an assessed property valuation of nearly $1,000,000. Pop. (1910) 5,018; (1920) 5,637.

Source: “Tallahassee,” Collier's New Encyclopedia, IX (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1921), pp. 234–235.