Florida history

Among those on hand for the occasion was a direct descendent of the man in charge of the first capitol's construction.

Citizens of all ages gathered at the Knott House Museum to commemorate May 20, 1865, when the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in Florida and all enslaved people in the state gained their freedom.

The conventional wisdom was the famed explorer headed west after that famous 1539 Christmas mass in what would become Florida's capital city. But new excavations indicate he headed much farther north than anyone thought.

The park's extensive spread of the seasonal blossoms is now in full bloom, according to event organizers.

Famed Tallahassee musician Scotty Barnhart returns with his quintet, after opening act Thursday Night Music Club takes the stage.

The tiny community of Greenville in Madison County was where the great music legend was raised, before heading east to attend the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine.

The festivities included lots of speeches, music, and the ritual reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in its entirety.

Only a fraction of the state's cemeteries have been officially located and documented.

One woman's quest to learn where her ancestors may have been buried led to a historic African-American burial ground believed to hold the graves of former slaves from Welaunee and Fleischmann plantations in Leon County.

More than 120 years ago, the vessel that would be the U.S.S. Tallahassee slid down the waves at a New Jersey shipyard.