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    3 months ago

    The ports of Pensecola and St Augustine served as the capitals of East and West Florida territories in the years before Florida became a unified state. The delegations trying to unify Florida got tired traveling all the way to and from each capital so they met in the middle at the site of a destroyed Apalachee settlement (courtesy of Andrew Jackson a few years earlier) and threw up a crude government building