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The African American community of Smokey Hollow was directly south east of the capitol building, on land previously owned by the Houston family. Research suggests that the first residents of the enclave were tenant farmers and former slaves of the…

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.…

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

Smokey Hollow was a large African American enclave that developed in Tallahassee in the last decades of the 19th century. Frame vernacular style homes such as these were common in Smokey Hollow, and most homes had large gardens in the front yard.…

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…

This undated document is a geographical survey of Township 3 north, range 2, which encompasses the northern half of Leon County, Florida. Includes acreage measurements and place names.

In the nineteenth century, there were several large…

Susan Bradford Eppes (third from right) standing in front of her childhood home, Pinehill.

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…