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Since 2009, we have learned about the following:

2009-2015
Wiregrass to Appomattox: The Untold Story of the 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment, CSA
Florida State University World War II Archives
The Grove, A Florida Home Through Seven Generations
Mission San Luis, 1656-1704
Laura Jepsen, an amazing woman
Art at the Governor’s Mansion
Social and cultural history that documents growth of Tallahassee in last half of 19th century
The Civil War Soldiers at Natural Bridge, their dress, accoutrements, and everyday life
You Are Here: Mapping the Florida Peninsula and Tallahassee, c. 1515 to the Present
The Great Depression and how it affected the people of Tallahassee
Women of Florida and Tallahassee in World War II
Susan Bradford and life of women in Tallahassee during the Civil War
Checks and imbalances: Governor John Milton and Florida’s Civil War Executive Council
A Sticky Situation: Florida’s Early Naval Stores Industry
Forever Changed: La Florida 1513-1821
Tallahassee: A Downtown With Greek Roots
A History of the Brokaw-McDougall House
Saving the Old Capitol, 1902-style
Dear Sallie…The Letters of Confederate Private James Jewel
Catholicism in the Capital City
In Search of Francis Eppes
Time Travel Through Black History in Tallahassee
The Florida Militia during the Spanish-American War
Baker’s Haulover–A Maritime Treasure of History and Pioneers
Tallahassee and 1513
“Out of Savannah” {including Florida in 1812}
The Maritime World of Ponce de León
Slavery to Emancipation: Fight for Freedom U.S.C.T.
Tall Timbers
The Myth: Not Much Happened in Florida during the Civil War
Little Known and Unusual Facts…and Funny Stories about Your Leon County Courthouse
A Musical and Historical Portrayal of Mrs Luella Pugh Knott
The History of Tallahassee’s Water System
The Forgotten Civil Rights Movement in Tallahassee, 1865-1890
The Unsolved Sims Murders of Tallahassee
Southern Neighbors, an introduction to Wakulla’s history

2020-Present
The Dog Island Hurricane Michael Shipwrecks
Honoring Florida’s Emancipation Day
Beyond Renegades & Runaways: Assertions of Indigeneity in Seminole History
The 20th Anniversary of the 2000 Election
William P. DuVal: The “Forrest Gump” of Early American History
Civil Rights & the First African-American Superstar Athlete
George Nesmith & the Fight to Save Wakulla County
Mud on the Tracks: the 1890s Tallahassee Street Railway
Rabbi David Eichorn & the Religious History of WWII
The St. John’s Cemetery Project
Historic Preservation Efforts in Florida
The Fort at Prospect Bluff
Tallahassee’s Old Fairgrounds & the Postbellum Race Horse Industry
Civil War Medicine
The Tallahassee Bicentennial Project
Antonio Proctor: Indispensable Man for Tallahassee’s Beginnings
Papists and Heretics in Post-Civil War Florida
Tallahassee’s Virtual Civil Rights Museum
Florida: The Dream State Reconsidered
Tallahassee Kitsch
GIS & History
When Freedom Came: Celebrations of Emancipation in Leon County, 1865-Present
George Saxon and the Development of Modern Tallahassee
James Hudson: Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights
19th Century Florida Tourism
The Union Bank
The History of the Miccosukee Land Co-Op
The Nine Lives of Florida’s Key Marco Cat
The History of the Tallahassee Junior Museum
Tallahassee Street Names
The History of the Miccosukee Tribe
The History of the Leon County Sheriff’s Department
The History of the Apalachee Tribe
The Dale Mabry Field
Florida’s Role in the American Revolution

Meetings are held October – May at Mission San Luis located at 1313 San Luis Road, Tallahassee, FL 32304.

We meet from October through May. Our regular meeting day is the second Thursday of each month, from 5:30 pm – 7 pm. Before the presentation at 6:00 pm, we have a half-hour to share a light meal during an informal get-together.

Click on the membership tab and sign up online or you can pay at a meeting, or send a check to our PO Box. The check or money order must be accompanied by the completed membership form found on this site or obtained at any meeting. Membership dues entitle you to monthly notification of events, attendance at the holiday dinner and the year-end Member picnic in May.

Membership categories are Individual Membership at $35.00/year, or Family Membership at $60.00/year, due each year in the month of payment. Reminders are sent annually.