The New Student's Reference Work/Tallahassee, Fla.

Tallahassee (tăllȧ-hăs′sḗ), Fla., the capital of the state and county-seat of Leon County, stands on high ground, 21 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. The capitol was begun in 1826. There are railroad-car and machine shops, a cotton-factory, novelty works and cigar-factories. The leading educational institutions are Florida State College, which has a normal department, West Florida Seminary and a fine public-school system. The old Spanish fort of San Louis is near by, and 16 miles away is the well-known and beautiful spring Wakulla. The town is noted for its flowers. Tallahassee was made the territorial capital in 1822, but was not laid out until 1824. Population 5,018.