Florida is often thought of , by people across the U.S., as nothing more than Disney World and Miami. Surprisingly, Tallahassee, our capital, is well-known in a lot of ways that you probably never knew about.
- Two of the old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies were filmed at our Wakulla Spings.
- We have no strip clubs. Unfortunately, the writers of 30 Rock don’t know that, as apparent on Season 5, episode 14: “”Look at sweatpants guy. This is a $90 million aircraft, not a Tallahassee strip club.” — Carol”. We have strippers, just not establishments where they do it on a pole.
- Rapper T-Pain, of auto-tune fame, is from here.
- During the American Civil War, Tallahassee was the only Confederate state capital east of the Mississippi not captured by Union forces. A small engagement, the Battle of Natural Bridge, was fought south of the city on March 6, 1865.
- We have an antique car museum that houses three different Batmobiles. If you go to the Tallahassee Wikipedia site, you’ll see a picture of one. Through doing my research for this post, I found that the one is mine! I am currently looking into how to get credit; I have no idea how it got there. (The pic on Wiki and mine )
- We have a natural caverns state park about 45 minutes from Tallahassee. You would never think of stalagmites and stalactites in Florida!
- We don’t have any Dennys or 7-11s.
- While we have extremely high summer temps and relatively low winter temps (teens), Springtime is exceedingly gorgeous.
- The George Lewis house was designed by Frank Llloyd Wright. It is privately owned and not open to the public. In fact, you can hardly see it from the overgrown driveway.
- Lucy and Leo’s, a local cupcake shop, was featured on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars
- The John G. Riley House in Tallahassee is the only known house still in existence that was owned by a former slave.
- The area in and around FSU’s campus practically shuts down in the beginning part of summer, though classes are being offered.
- Faye Dunaway, Burt Reynolds, Richard Simmons, Jim Morrison, Deion Sanders, and Scott Stapp of Creed fame all attended Florida State University.
There you have it, folks. I used to vow I’d only stay here for four year to get my degree then I’d go to a real place. I’ve been here 14 and I still quite like it.
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George Washington’s niece, Catherine Bellvue married Napoleon’s cousin, Prince Murat. She owned a plantation from her first husband (he died), and her home and other buildings are at the Natural History Museum.
Also, Prince Murat is the namesake of the seedy hotel at Monroe and Thomasville. He is also the reason why the largest private collection of Napoleon’s personal belongings and other Napoleonic items came to Tallahassee for a 3 month display at the Florida History Museum before going to Washington DC, NYC, and LA, and was the only other city on the tour.
Oh and I meant to add “Additional interesting facts” before the beginning…but got so excited to post the facts that I forgot.
Wow, I can’t believe I forgot about that! Thanks.
Interesting! I never knew there was so much going on in Tallahassee!
It’s good to be living in a place you love at the same time. I appreciate your list as I associate Florida with just sun and beaches all the time. Antique car museum – now I’d love that!
yep, I didn’t know any of those things.
A Denny’s All Nighter restaurant recently opened on FSU campus and a regular Denny’s has opened just west of town at the intersection of I-10 and US 90 in Midway (32670 Blue Star Highway).
I am content to leave Denny’s in the past, but I would like access to a 7-11.
I totally forgot about the one on campus!!