The Fletcher Community was established when Dixie County was part of Lafayette County and both were part of their parent county, Madison. In the early 1850s Fletcher families and other families emigrated south from the Carolinas through Georgia, . . . — — Map (db m67595) HM
On April 1, 1899, Orren Y. Felton and his wife, Lille F. Felton, gave deed to the Board of Public Instruction for Old Town School. On May 23, 1911, Ruby E. Chaires and her husband McQueen Chaires gave additional deed to the Board of Public . . . — — Map (db m165868) HM
Inhabited by the Upper Creeks, Oldtown, often called Suwanee Oldtown, was one of the largest Indian villages in northern Florida. In Andrew Jackson's punitive expedition into Florida in April, 1818, Oldtown was captured. Most of the renegade Indians . . . — — Map (db m17712) HM
The first Leon Academy opened in 1827, three years after Tallahassee's founding, and operated until the mid-1840s. In 1869, the Leon County Board of Public Instruction established separate schools for whites and blacks. In 1871, the county opened . . . — — Map (db m79541) HM
This petrified wood is over 80000,000 years old. The trees originally grew in the Triassic Period. After the tree died, it was buried by sediment and saturated with water rich in silica, Eventually the makeup of the wood was replaced by silica and . . . — — Map (db m237650) HM