Florida Agricultural & Manufacturing University (FAMU) is full of lore from its early days across from FSU’s Westcott Fountain, to occupying a former slave plantation, and a bunch of name changes to keep things interesting.
I’ve spent a lot of time on FAMU’s campus over the years, but I’ve been learning a lot more about the history lately and have been appreciating the ground of the campus in a whole new way.
Y’ALL is the most Southern of Southern words, but everything originates somewhere, y’all!
Florida State University’s campus is full of history in every direction, but I’d never heard of Gallows Hill before.
James Ford was not only the First Black Mayor of Tallahassee, but he was the first Black Mayor of ANY Capitol city in the entire country.
In 2016 a WWII bomb was found and detonated in Tallahassee’s CollegeTown. This is the story of that happening.
