In the Sunshine State on this day in:

1810 The first session of the Senate of the “State of Florida”--known as the Republic of West Florida--started today in Francisville, Louisiana.  Today’s Florida was still under the control of the Spanish government.

1824 This is the date officially established as the founding of Tallahassee as the Capital of Florida.

1883 “Tater Hill Bluff,” was renamed Arcadia and received its first U.S. Post Office today.

1927 Florida consumers were delighted when the first Sears, Roebuck and Company store opened today in Jacksonville.