This page is an effort to compile a list of books and other
resources that would be of value to researchers of Leon County.
Ante-Bellum Tallahassee - Bertram H. Groene
The Cemeteries of Leon County, Fla., Rural White Cemeteries, Tombstone Inscriptions and Epitaphs - compiled and edited by Joy Smith Paisley
The Florida Census of 1825 - by Dorothy Dodd
- FHQ, Vol22, Jul 1943, PP34-40.
[Detailed censuses exist for 2 Florida counties - Leon and
Jackson. This journal article covers Leon County only.]
From Cotton to Quail: An Agricultural Chronicle of Leon County, Florida, 1860-1967 - Clifton Paisley
Records of the Tallahassee and Newnansville General Land
Office 1825-1892 - compiled by Alvie L. Davidson
The Red Hills of Florida, 1528-1865 - Clifton
Paisley
[This book should be sought out by anyone researching the
counties of: Leon, Jackson, Gadsden, Jefferson & Madison. It
gives history, details on the largest plantations and their
occupants, and has an excellent bibliography for finding good
research materials.]
Red, White, and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida - Malcolm B. Johnson
Tallahassee and Leon County, Florida Cemeteries - Floreda Duke Varick & Phylis Rose Smith
CENSUS RECORDS:
1825 Territorial Census
1830-1920 Federal Census
1885 State Census
1935 & 1945 State Census (no indexes)
TAX RECORDS:
1829-1855 FHL microfilm #0006924
1856-1868 FHL microfilm #0006925
1873-1878 FHL microfilm #0006926