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   From: russell-watson@att.net   
      
   On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:28:42 GMT, "Linda Terrell"   
    wrote:   
      
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   >> True. Tallahassee's distinction is "only capitol east of the   
   >> Mississippi River" that never fell.   
   >> '97 FLSTF   
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   >Tally also has a Napoleon connection.  The son   
   >of Murat settled near there in the 1820's and helped   
   >found Tally.   
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   >LT   
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   I just walked through his widow's plantation house with my grandson   
   last Saturday. It was moved from its original location outside   
   Tallahassee to the grounds of the Tallahassee Museum of History and   
   Natural Science (called the Tallahassee Junior Museum when I first   
   started going there on school field trips 30+ years ago) some years   
   back. BTW, "Princess" Murat, as her gravestone declares her to be, was   
   Geo. Washington's niece, being the daughter of his sister. Considering   
   that it was the home of a niece of Washington who was the widow of a   
   nephew of Napoleon, it's a fairly modest home when compared to some of   
   the really ostentatious abodes of the era. It basically has 4 rooms: a   
   dining room and parlor downstairs and a bedroom and sewing room   
   upstairs, connected by a single 2-flight set of stairs rather than the   
   sweeping staircases usually associated, Tara-esque, with such places.   
   The kitchen, of course, is separate from the rest of the house as was   
   the custom of the day, and is not original. It was missing, either   
   torn or burned down, when the house was claimed by the state, and was   
   reconstructed to the same plans as others in the area. Though not   
   resident in one of the more lavish styles of plantation home,   
   Catherine was still a social sparkplug in early Tallahassee. It's a   
   nice exhibit, marred only by the over emphasis of the role of slaves   
   in the household, which seems to be attendant in all antebellum   
   historical sites these days.   
   '97 FLSTF   
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