Monday we went to the Museum of Florida History. It is in down town Tallahassee in one of the State buildings. When we got there we had to sign in at the security desk and get a visitor pass to wear. When we got downstairs to the museum we had to sign in again. We watched a short film on the history of Florida and then started our tour of the the museum.
There were displays on the origins of the people of Florida, from the ice-age Paleoindians to the later native groups. The exhibit included a mastodon skeleton and a diorama of an Indian village from 1450. There was cargo from two Spanish shipwrecked plate fleets from the 1700s. There were exhibits from the twenty-year era when Florida was under British rule. There were exhibits of Florida during the Civil War the 20Th Century Forestry and Agriculture and early transportation.
My favorite was in the transportation display -- a Model T Ford Tin Can Camper. It was something else!!!!! They would remodel the trucks into campers with sheets of tin and travel in them and eat out of tin cans. -- tin can campers. It was neat how they made beds. If you've never heard of them (like us), try to do a web search and look at one.
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