Join us for a full day of celebration and history at the Tallahassee Bicentennial Festival! Starting at 1 PM, take a walk through living history, exploring interactive exhibits that bring Tallahassee's past to life. Visit different time periods hosted by local museums and organizations with each site featuring kid-friendly activities and displays.
Enjoy delicious offerings from food trucks and local artisans throughout the day and cool down with an ice cream social in the afternoon.
Play your own role in Tallahassee history by attending the unveiling of a historical marker in Cascades Park to commemorate our bicentennial.
Enjoy delicious offerings
Play a role in Tallahassee's history
Join legislative leaders
Experience a spectacular concert!
Finally, join legislative leaders and the mayors from St. Augustine and Pensacola for the dedication of the First Florida Capitol replica.
Tallahassee’s very own, T-Pain, will close out the festival with a concert at the Adderley Amphitheater at Cascades Park!
SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS
Tales from the Log Cabin Capitol is a brand-new play that makes you an eyewitness to Tallahassee 200 years ago. On November 10, 1824, the Florida legislature convened in Tallahassee for the very first time. Thirteen legislators faced hot-button topics like election fights, land sale disputes, and race relations in their newly-constructed log cabin capitol. Theater with a
Mission invites you to watch these issues unfold and get inspired to solve them.
WHERE
TO PARK
Parking garages 1 and C, as notated on the map, will be available for public parking during the Bicentennial Festival.
Garage 1 has entrances on S. Monroe St. and S. Calhoun St.
Garage C can be accessed from S. Monroe St., S. Adams St. and E. Bloxham St.
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We stand at the edge of a new century. In 2024, our community has an opportunity to celebrate the past through our 200th anniversary while embracing the next 100 years. More than an anniversary, we extend an invitation to residents and visitors alike to join us as we honor our story and the powerful next chapter we are poised to write.
Tallahassee’s story is profound. We are a community of doers, dreamers and believers. Our ambition endures to innovate, commemorate, illuminate, activate, educate, negotiate, elevate, celebrate, create and appreciate.
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