I'm Mike Plummer.

We Followed many of the Bicentennial events throughout the year.

The first Florida Capital Log cabin was supposed to be finished by Labor Day, but tornadoes, hot weather, and hurricanes delayed the build.

That's probably an understatement.

So we have had, at least two hurricanes kind of go through the area.

We had some tornadoes.

We've had a number of other, weather related, you know, setbacks.

But I mean, welcome to Florida.

And if you think about it, it's part of the community.

This is where we live.

Is this part of being, native in this area.

And, it's just what we do.

We roll with it.

It's finally wrapped up in October 2024.

One, three.

And I. I think we all had an idea that it had the potential to take on a life of its own.

I don't know if any of us ever thought that it would be this grand and celebrated.

And that is so exciting for Tallahassee.

Oh, it's.

Yeah, it's been an incredible project.

And this is only the first chapter.

The second chapter now is training up the docent corps and making sure that we are open and available to the public to come learn about the history of Tallahassee.

It was a very good feeling to work on this, to do something for the community.

And something that, you know, it's going to be there in the future and people will be able to look back and say, yeah, I was a part of that is something really nice to do.

I've been up for four community days.

Would have liked to done more, but, you know, I'm over two hours away and we probably had over 250, 300 volunteers over the last several months, working together.

So it's been quite a quite as well.

I truly think it builds a sense of community.

I mean, what is Tallahassee known for?

A government town and a university town.

And this story is the story of why Tallahassee is where it is.

And what I hope people take away is appreciation of Florida's history and their beginnings here.

You know, when you hear from people, those who came before us and, you know, it's been 200 years.

What's it going to be like another 100, 200 years?

We don't know.

But we need to know our history.

History, landmarks.

A history is important because you get people interested in Florida's history.

You can get them interested in that and its environment.

You know, we love this land and we need good stewards of it.