updated 3.19.07
This Chapter has been formed in Tallahassee, Florida on February 11, 2006 in support of
and agreement with the Mission Statement of NWC, Inc.
2007 OFFICERS:
President: Mike Bearden
Vice-President: Jon McClain
Secretary/Treasurer: Valerie McClain
Sergeant-at-Arms: Shane Watson
Contact: Mike Bearden
Photos of the NWC at the Tallahassee
Games are up at the
link below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos
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Slainte! Lisa Logsdon Brandon
Tallahassee is important to local Celts due to its history:
West Florida lacked large scale migration, but it had the Forbes Purchase. In 1776 three American Loyalists, William Panton, Thomas Forbes, and John Leslie, fled into British Florida and started a trading company, Panton, Leslie and Company. Brother John Forbes was chosen to be the business manager. When England left Florida in 1783, Panton and Leslie remained as agents for the Indians in behalf of the Spanish administration. In exchange of cash payments of debts, hundreds of Creek Indians living in West Florida gave the Panton Company over a million acres of land along the Apalachicola River. "Tallahassee" is an Apalachee Indian word meaning "abandoned fields". The Apalachee Indians lived throughout the panhandle from 500 through the 1600s. In 1539, Hernando de Soto spent the first Christmas in the New World in the woods near the present State Capitol. As more Spanish colonists entered the panhandle, disease and fighting reduced the Indian population. The Apalachee Indians left and the area became an abandoned village, thus it was called "Tallahassee". When Florida became a territory of the United States in 1822, both St. Augustine and Pensacola, the major cities in Florida at the time, competed to be the Capital. Unable to come to an agreement, it was decided to locate the Capital at a point between the two cities. Tallahassee’s tall hills attracted the search party, and in 1824 the City of Tallahassee was created.
Tallahassee Scottish Games and Celtic Festival
MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS:
Sponsors
Finnegan's Wake
Shenanigan's
Events
Tallahassee Highland Games