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    Record Data
    Place Unit Type
    City or Town
    Containing Unit
    Leon County, FL
    Events
    Date Type
    12/01/1866 - 12/03/1866 Florida legislature votes unanimously to reject ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawmaking/Litigating
    05/29/1863 Heavy gale off the Florida Panhandle destroys two Union naval sailing barks Crime/Disasters
    01/10/1861 In Tallahassee, the Florida secession convention votes by 62-7 to leave the United States Lawmaking/Litigating
    01/11/1861 In Tallahassee, the formal Ordinance of Secession is signed on the capitol steps and Florida secedes Lawmaking/Litigating
    01/03/1861 The Florida state convention on secession assembles in Tallahassee Lawmaking/Litigating
    People
    Birthplace of

    Watkins, Louis Douglass

    Louis Douglass Watkins, detail
    Burial Place of

    Brevard, Theodore Washington

    Theodore Washington Brevard, detail

    Walker, David Shelby

    David Shelby Walker, detail
    Documents
    Date Title
    08/23/1865 William Marvin," Provisional Governor's instructions for the election of a State Convention," August 23, 1865, Tallahassee, Florida
    09/20/1866 John Gray Foster to Ulysses S. Grant, September 20, 1866, Tallahassee, Florida.
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