Tallahassee (founded 1824), capital of the state of Florida, is a quiet town of some 127,000 inhabitants at the east end of the Panhandle. Its main features of interest are the Old Capitol (1839), the New Capitol (1978) and the richly stocked Museum of Florida History. Outside the town are the Lake Jackson Indian Mounds (an Indian cult site),
the Natural Bridge Battlefield (on which the defenders of Tallahassee defeated the Union forces), the Spanish fort of San Marcos de Apalache (1679) and Wakulla Springs, with one of the biggest karstic springs in Florida, part of an extensive cave system of which little has so far been explored.