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10 unusual facts about Tallahassee


Betton Hills

Betton Hills is a neighborhood near Tallahassee, Florida.

Charles G. Palmer-Buckle

In 2002 he apologized on behalf of Africans for the part Africans played in the slave trade, and the apology was accepted by bishop John Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee.

Crouse-Hinds Company

Not long after, Cooper sold the traffic products division to Traffic Control Technologies of Liverpool, New York, who then sold the division to Peek Traffic Transit of Tallahassee, Florida.

Don Veller

Veller died at the age of 94 on November 10, 2006 in Tallahassee, Florida.

Gene Cox

Gene Cox was a football coach at Leon High School in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.

Jubie Bragg

Jubie Barton Bragg (February 17, 1876 — November 26, 1947) was the first head football coach at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Marvis Martin

Martin was born in Tallahassee, Florida but grew up in Miami, and was singing professionally by the age of five.

Noora Naraghi

Then, she traveled to Tallahassee, Florida, US (in 2010) to learn motocross from Stefy Bau, former women's world motocross champion, the elite worldwide motocross academy for women.

In 2010, she traveled to Tallahassee, Florida, USA to learn motocross from Stefy Bau, former women's world motocross champion, the elite worldwide motocross academy for women – so, CNN picked up the story.

Thomas DeSaille Tucker

Tucker presided over the school's relocation to Tallahassee, Florida, on property that was once the Highwood Plantation of Governor William Pope Duval and an infusion of funds thanks to the Second Morrill Act.


Adam Weinstein

He has had several different jobs in the reporting business including positions at Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal and the Tallahassee Democrat.

Alonzo S. Church

President Church's daughter, Julia, married George Alexander Croom, owner of Casa de Laga Plantation in Tallahassee, Florida, Father of Alonzo Church Croom, Comptroller of the State of Florida from 1900 until his death on December 7, 1912 and brother of Hardy Bryan Croom, a planter and recognized naturalist, who discovered the rare Torreya tree and established Goodwood Plantation.

Appalachian dulcimer

Contemporary professional musicians who view the dulcimer as their primary instrument include Stephen Seifert of Nashville and Aaron O'Rourke of Tallahassee.

Bernhard Schrader

In 1966 Schrader worked as a post-doc at Florida State University in Tallahassee, in the research group of Earle K. Plyler, at that time one of the leading molecular spectroscopists in the USA.

Bryan Norcross

Norcross started in television as an engineer at WFSU-TV in Tallahassee, Florida while in college, moving to WXIA-TV (then WQXI-TV) in Atlanta as a maintenance engineer/technical director after graduation in 1972.

Craigslist Joe

Garner and Flint journeyed across America, visiting many major cities, including New York, Chicago, Tallahassee, New Orleans, Portland, and San Francisco (where he managed to meet Craigslist's founder, Craig Newmark).

Cream Abdul Babar

In 1997, Cream Abdul Babar entered the studio with Tallahassee-based recording engineer, Tommy Hamilton, and exited with their first full-length record, "The Backwater of Masculine Ethics." The band toured the entire US several times on this release, including 10–15 shows in Atlanta, GA alone.

Critical Art Ensemble

In 1989, the group collaborate with Gran Fury to release Cultural Vaccines, a multimedia event in Tallahassee, Florida, which critiques U.S. policy on HIV.

CSS Tallahassee

The iron Confederate cruiser Tallahassee was named after the Confederate state capital of Tallahassee in Florida and was built on the River Thames by J & W Dudgeon of Cubitt Town, London for London, Chatham & Dover Rly. Co. to the design of Capt. T. E. Symonds, Royal Navy, ostensibly for the Chinese opium trade.

Dental laboratory

This merger took place in Chicago and then, in 1952, NADL established its headquarters offices in Washington, D.C., which were moved to Tallahassee, Florida later in 2001.

Don Suggs

Suggs taught drawing, painting, sculpture and color theory from 1972-1984 at Florida State University at Tallahassee, Franconia College in New Hampshire, University of Southern California, and Otis Art Institute.

Florida Classic

Previous games were at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL and Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, FL until the two schools agreed on a permanent site in Tampa, Florida, in 1978.

Florida Governor's Mansion

The Florida Governor's Mansion (also called The People's House of Florida) is a historic U.S. residence in Tallahassee, Florida.

Gayle Sierens

She joined the Tampa NBC affiliate in 1977 as a weekend sports anchor and reporter after working with WFSU in Tallahassee while she was attending Florida State University.

Goodwood Plantation

The Croom family of Lenoir County, North Carolina began purchasing land in North Florida in the 1820s, including plantations in Mariana, Quincy and Tallahassee.

H. Joel Deckard

Deckard ultimately moved to Florida, where he became a computer technical specialist for Citibank in Tallahassee.

Harry Dahms

Previously, he taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee (starting in 1993), and as a visiting professor at University of Göttingen, Germany (1999/2000) and at University of Innsbruck, Austria (2011, 2012) .

Horace Broadnax

Broadnax became a member of the Florida Bar in 1993 after obtaining his law degree from Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, Florida in 1991 and was a law partner at an Orlando law firm.

James R. Ford

He built WAMN Radio Station, becoming Tallahassee's first black manager of a radio station.

Joe Renzetti

Renzetti became Cameo Records' house guitarist, and played on the hits "Let's Twist Again", " Dee Dee Sharp's "Mashed Potato Time"", "South Street", The "Limbo Rock", "Palisades Park, and "Tallahassee Lassie".

Kylie Williams

After winning the Miss Tallahassee title Williams went on to compete in and win the Miss Florida 2007 pageant.

Leon County

Leon County, Florida (Florida's Capital City, Tallahassee is located here)

Mary Elise Hayden

She studied at the Young Actors Theater in Tallahassee, Florida, for seven years and attended the Middle School of the Arts in North Palm Beach, Florida, and, in West Palm Beach, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, where she majored in voice and theater.

News Central

It also provides weather updates and forecasts during national morning news programs on select Sinclair stations that are void of local weather staff, including WTWC in Tallahassee, Florida, and WXLV-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Rio Bravo Cantina

Besides suburban Atlanta, the chain also operated in Metro Detroit including locations in Ann Arbor, MI and Lansing, MI, Orlando, Florida, Tallahassee, Florida and Nashville, Tennessee.

Springtime Tallahassee

This prompted the Junior League of Tallahassee with the Junior League taking the southern and central legislators' wives on a bus tour of old homes in Tallahassee and nearby Monticello.

Stephanie Kopelousos

Denver Stutler was appointed as FDOT Secretary by then Governor Jeb Bush in 2005, and Stutler hired Kopelousos as his chief of staff in Tallahassee.

Steve Schale

Following the Obama campaign, Schale returned to Tallahassee, where is married to Nikole Souder-Schale, a regional Vice President with the American Heart Association.

Tallahassee Airport

Tallahassee Commercial Airport in Tallahassee, Florida, United States (FAA: 68J)

Tallahassee Regional Airport in Tallahassee, Florida, United States (FAA: TLH)

Tallahassee RollerGirls

Tallahassee RollerGirls have donated proceeds to local and national charities in the past including Refuge House, National Public Radio, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and are founding members of the Oasis Center for Women & Girls.

Tallahassee Wine and Food Festival

Media sponsors include some of Tallahassee's print media such as the Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee Magazine as well as broadcast media such as Comcast and Clear Channel Communications.

Tananarive Due

Due was born in Tallahassee, Florida, the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr.

The Florida Bar

The Florida Bar's headquarters building and annex are located in Tallahassee, three blocks from the Florida State Capitol.

WEVV-TV

WEVV is one of the few Big Three affiliates that doesn't air any local newscasts, a group that includes WTWC-TV in Tallahassee, Florida (NBC) and KAQY in Monroe, Louisiana (ABC).

WFSU

WFSU-TV, a television station (channel 11 analog/32 digital) licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, United States

WFSU-FM, a radio station (88.9 FM) licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, United States

WTNT

WTNT-FM, a radio station (94.9 FM) licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, United States