Cascades Park is a 12-acre (49,000 m) park along the stream known as the St. Augustine Branch in Tallahassee, Florida, south of the Florida State Capitol. It is a Nationally Registered Historic Place because it influenced the territorial government's choice of the capital city's location.
As of 2006, most of the park is closed to the public because of soil and water contamination by coal tar released by a manufactured gas plant.
In 1821, Spain ce...
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Cascades Park is a 12-acre (49,000 m) park along the stream known as the St. Augustine Branch in Tallahassee, Florida, south of the Florida State Capitol. It is a Nationally Registered Historic Place because it influenced the territorial government's choice of the capital city's location.
As of 2006, most of the park is closed to the public because of soil and water contamination by coal tar released by a manufactured gas plant.
In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States. A territorial government was established, but the two largest cities, Pensacola and St. Augustine, were too far east and west, respectively, for either to make a good permanent capital. Territorial governor William Pope Duval appointed two commissioners, one from Pensacola and one from St. Augustine, to choose a location roughly halfway between them to build the new capital. When they saw a beautiful waterfall in what is now Cascades Park, they chose a nearby hill as the location for the future city of...
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