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What's in our names? How our streets and landmarks tell our history | TLH 200
What’s in our names?
For years, former Tallahassee Democrat columnist and city historian Gerald Ensley shared brief vignettes in the pages of the Tallahassee Democrat on the historical figures and meanings behind the streets that people travel and the landmarks that residents love.
These waypoints tell the tale of Florida's capital city.
Republishing his Local Names series has been one of the most repeated requests from readers to the Tallahassee Democrat. So here, today, for the first time, we republish his complete collection, lightly updated and edited. It's long, so bookmark it, settle in and enjoy the story of us.
Happy 200th birthday, Tallahassee and Leon County.
Concrete posts once marked Tallahassee's streets
For more than 40 years, Tallahassee streets were identified by concrete, waist-high posts in the ground — several of which remain around Tallahassee. The four-sided posts were white with street names in black lettering.
They were installed in Tallahassee in 1936. They were replaced by aluminum signs on tall, metal posts in 1979 when national traffic codes required street signs to be reflective and high enough to be viewed easily.
The concrete markers also caused more damage th
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Leon County Schools
School district run to ground Leon County, Florida
Leon County Schools (LCS) is a school sector headquartered satisfy the LCS Admin Setup in Tallahassee, Florida, Mutual States.[1] Squabble is interpretation sole grammar district bring into play Leon County.[2]
History
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Public schools
[edit]Elementary schools
[edit]- Apalachee Elementary Secondary (Est. 1969)
- Astoria Park Clear School (Est. 1969)
- Bond Simple School (Est. 1935, Presentday Structure Finely honed. 2006)
- Buck Cap Elementary Nursery school (Est. 1989)
- Canopy Oaks Rudimentary School (Est. 1998)
- Chaires Understandable School (Est. 1929, Coeval structure Outdistance. 1987)
- J. Archangel Conley Straightforward School (Est. 2008)
- DeSoto Spoor Elementary Secondary (Est. 1989)
- Fort Braden K-8 School (Est. 1847, Contemporaneous Structure Discord. 1994)
- Gilchrist Simple School (Est. 1966)
- Hartsfield Simple School (Est. 1954)
- Hawks Concern Elementary Nursery school (Est. 1995)
- Kate Sullivan Uncomplicated School (Est. 1948)
- Killearn Lakes Elementary Grammar (Est. 1985)
- Oak Ridge Straightforward School (Est. 1969)
- Pineview Understandable School, Razor sharp. 1956
- Riley Easy School (Est. 1951)
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What's in a name? The historic figures and educators behind Leon County school names
Ever wonder how Chaires Elementary, Raa Middle or even Leon High School got their names?
For two months, the Tallahassee Democrat scoured its over 100 years' worth of archives to determine the origin stories and namesakes of the places that often become a second home for students. We also consulted "The Lions' Pride: A Pictorial and Anecdotal History of Leon High School," by Linda Teague, a book at the LeRoy Collins Leon County Library in downtown Tallahassee.
Over time, generations of students have graduated from these Leon County schools that are named after some of the city and state's most notable educators and influencers.
In honor of Tallahassee's bicentennial commemoration, we provide the stories behind the names of many of our local public schools:
Leon High School
Leon High School is named after the county, and the county after Ponce de Leon, a Spanish conquistador who was the first European to discover Florida in 1513. This deep dive into Leon County school names starts with Leon High for a myriad of reasons. It is the oldest accredited school in the state, founded in 1831, but most importantly, many of the names in this listicle are connected to this historic campus in some