![]() ![]() The College in Tallahassee was then called the Seminary of the West, or The West Florida Seminary and Female Academy. There was also one colored church, which was the Methodist denomination. Tallahassee had no police force at this time, and the Mayor usually walked through the streets at night, carrying a stick, and dutifully locked up all characters. After that time the reasons are obvious enough for the discouragement and lack of growth. Tallahassee, as a town, had just begun to develop civic pride and to grow into a thriving community in the modern sense, when the war came. The woods were thick and seemingly untouched, just south of the Capital. On the other side of the main street was an old Hotel, a clump of woods, and several buildings. He had four dress figures in his store over which were draped the finest silks, satins, and laces that could be bought. Hopkins went to New York twice a year and the beautiful good he brought back he displayed in the best New York manner. Hopkins and Company was on the corner of what is now College Avenue and Monroe Streets, where Fain's Drug Store is. The business houses were all on the west side of Monroe Street. There were no open gardens exposed to the view of passerbys. Each house had its garden surrounded by a white fence made of wooden palings. But when one considers the fact that most of the large spacious homes now seem on Monroe, Adams, and Calhoun Streets were built long before the Civil War, one gets some idea of the gracious living of those days. Hardly a city block had more than three our four homes on it. Tallahassee at that time was sparsely settled. The names of them were: Tallahassee precinct, Railroad station, Micousukie, Centreville, Lamonia, Youngs, Fort Braden, Hodgson's, Plank Road and Jackson's Bluff. There were ten voting precincts in the county in the early 60's. It would be interesting work for some one, who would take the time, to trace down the size and location of these plantations, and list them with the names of the original owners the names of Call, Bradford, Randolph, Gamble, Eppes, Claires, Ward, and may others. Pine Hill, Live Oak, Waverly, Ethelmere, Welaunee, and Verdure are some that come to mind. Many of the names of these old plantations given them by their original owners have come to us, and some are still used by the present owners of the land. The number of plantations in Leon County during this period is not known. Twenty-three thousand dollars was the assessed value of watches, and $69, 500.00 was the assessed value of pleasure carriages. The assessed value of horses, cattle, and hogs amounted to $399,715.00. In 1861 the tax books of Leon County listed the names of only 475 white men, yet the assessed value of negro slaves amounted to $4,525,650.00. Transcribed by Genealogy Trails Transcription Team Source: "Tallahassee Historical Society Annual", vol. Leon County Florida Life During the Civil War ![]()
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