Tallahassee
— — the canopy that turns the road into a long green room.
Not only on a wall.
“Florida's capital sits in the rolling red-clay hills of the northern panhandle, closer to Atlanta than to Miami. The country roads out of town run beneath canopies of live oak hung with Spanish moss, the oldest of which the state designated as protected Canopy Roads in 1959. The Apalachee held this ground first; the Spanish reached it in 1539. The capitol today is two buildings: a low historic one and a tower behind it.
Tallahassee, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Tallahassee is the capital of Florida and the seat of Leon County, sitting about 25 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico and roughly 200 miles west of Jacksonville. The name comes from a Muskogean word meaning old fields or old town, given by Creek arrivals in the eighteenth century. The Spanish reached the site in 1539, when Hernando de Soto wintered with the Apalachee. The modern city was chosen as the territorial capital in 1824 as a midpoint between St Augustine and Pensacola, and was incorporated the following year.
The country roads leaving the city pass beneath canopies of live oak hung with Spanish moss, several of which the state designated as protected Canopy Roads in 1959. The five core canopy roads — Old St Augustine, Centerville, Meridian, Miccosukee, and Old Bainbridge — together cover more than seventy miles, with some trees more than two hundred years old. Tallahassee sits in the southern reach of the Red Hills region, where the panhandle's red clay and rolling ground meet the coastal flat farther south.
The Florida State Capitol complex sits at the centre of downtown. The Historic Capitol, completed in 1845 and restored to its 1902 appearance, is open as a museum free of charge. The 22-story New Capitol tower behind it holds the working chambers and an observation deck on the top floor that takes in the panhandle in clear weather. The Mission San Luis de Apalachee on the west side of town is a reconstructed seventeenth-century Spanish-Apalachee mission with a council house roughly 120 feet across.