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John Wallace was born a slave in Maryland, and moved to Florida after the Civil War. He served in both the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate in the 1870s and 1880s. In 1884, he was appointed to represent Leon County in the State…

Born in 1857, John G. Riley was a prominent member of Tallahassee's African American community. He served as the principle of the city's first African American high school.

This house was built in 1890, and members of the Riley family lived here…

The Knott House in Tallahassee was bult in 1843, and was gome to local Attorrney Thomas Hagner and his wife Catherine Gamble.

During the Union occupation of Tallahassee in the months following the end of the Civil War, the Knott House served as…

In the last weeks of the Civil War, Union forces intended to retake Fort Ward, on the Apalachee Bay, and march north to Tallahassee. Volunteer forces from the surrounding region repelled three attacks, and Union forces had not choice but to retreat.…

This model shotgun style house commemorates the "family and home spirit" of those who lived in Smokey Hollow.

The Smokey Hollow Commemoration fountain. The commemorative shotgun homes can be seen in the background.

These homes along Marvin Street in Tallahassee are all that remain of Smokey Hollow.

Richard Keith Call began construction on his stately Greek Revival plantation home around 1835. Construction was completed by 1840.