Tallahassee is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida, the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida in 1824. As of 2020, the city was the 9th largest city in Florida with a population of approximately 198,000. Tallahassee is considered a university town since more than 70,000 students live and study there.
Map of Tallahassee
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History
Tallahassee is located within the Apalachee Province, which is a home of the Apalachee - a Mississippian culture of Native American people engaged mostly in agriculture. The name “Tallahassee” is a Muskogean Indian word often translated as “old fields”, or “old town”. This may originate from the language of Creek Indians (their descendants are Seminoles) migrated to the region in the 18th century.
Culture and art
There are a lot of entertainment venues, theatres, museums, parks and performing arts centres in Tallahassee.
One of the most popular entertainment venues is the Railroad Square Art Park. The Railroad Square Art Park is a territory of culture and arts where you can find a variety of contemporary art objects and visit art collectibles stores. The Railroad Square is famous for its alternative art scene, small locally owned shops and independent art studios. On the first Friday of every month, free exhibitions of paintings (known as the First Friday Festival) are held in the Art Park. Thousands of Tallahasseeans attend the festival to spend their time with friends and enjoy the arts.
Tallahassee is known for its high number of museums among which are the FSU Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Florida History, the Tallahassee Museum, Goodwood Museum & Gardens, Mission San Luis de Apalachee, and the Tallahassee Automobile Museum.
The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) is a public museum, so not only students and university staff, but also every Tallahassee resident can explore the collection of more than 7,000 art works by artists of the modern era and the past.
The Tallahassee Museum is a privately funded, non-profit corporation in Tallahassee. The aim of this museum is to educate the residents of and visitors to the Big Bend area about the region's natural and cultural history, from the nineteenth century until the present. The Big Bend area is an informal region of Florida, and it refers to that part of the state where the Florida panhandle meets the peninsular part of the state. Tallahassee is the principle city in this region.
Economy
Government is the central focus of Tallahassee's economy, although education, printing and publishing, food processing, and the lumber industry play important roles as well. Tallahassee has a stable economy and a comparatively low unemployment rate (3,6%). A recent survey of occupations and industries found a wide variety of employment sectors.
Tallahassee is a high technology center and is sometimes referred to as "Silicon Valley South." Institutions such as Innovation Park/Tallahassee, affiliated with Florida A&M University and Florida State University, and Smart Park, a privately owned 130-acre fiber-optic research center, place Tallahassee on the cutting edge of technology. The city boasts that it is the most wired community in the country.
According to Tallahassee`s 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are:
- Florida State University
- State of Florida
- Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, Inc.
Transport
The Tallahassee International Airport, being one of the major airports in north Florida, serves the state capital and its surrounding areas. The main mode of public transportation in Tallahassee is StarMetro, which operates the bus system servicing the city.
Medicine
There are more than 30 hospitals in the city offering all kinds of medical services.
Founded in 1948, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) is a private, not-for-profit community healthcare system committed to transforming care, advancing health, and improving lives with an ultimate vision to elevate the standards of its healthcare practice, quality and innovation in the region. Serving a 17-county region in North Florida and South Georgia, TMH is comprised of a 772-bed acute care hospital, a psychiatric hospital, multiple specialty care centres, three residency programs, 32 affiliated physician practices and partnerships with Doctors’ Memorial Hospital, Florida State University College of Medicine, University of Florida Health, Weems Memorial Hospital and Wolfson Children's Hospital.
Education and science
The system of higher education in Tallahassee is presented by two main universities of the city.
Universities of Tallahassee:
Florida State University
Florida State University is a well-known research university in Tallahassee. More than 41,000 students are educated there with academic staff of 5,966. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the state of Florida. The university comprises 16 separate colleges and more than 110 centres, facilities, laboratories and institutes that offer more than 360 programs of study, including professional school programs.
Official website: https://www.fsu.edu/
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU)
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee. Founded in 1887, it is located on the highest geographic hill in Tallahassee. The University enrolls nearly 10,000 students hailing from across the United States and more than 70 countries, including several African countries, the Bahamas, Brazil, Indonesia, China, and the United Arab Emirates. The student body includes representatives from all ethnic, socio-economic, and religious backgrounds.
Official website: http://www.famu.edu/
Sport
Tallahassee is home to one of the most competitive collegiate athletics programs in the nation, the Florida State Seminoles of Florida State University. The Seminoles compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The university funds 20 teams, they have collectively won 19 national championships.
College football game weekends bring in a significant amount of tourism to Leon County. FSU home games have a total attendance of more than 500,000 people.
Doak S. Campbell Stadium (in full Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium), popularly known as "Doak", is a football stadium on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee,. It is the home field of the Florida State Seminoles football team of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). With a stadium capacity of 79,560, it is the largest continuous brick structure in the United States, the second-largest stadium in the Atlantic Coast Conference.