{"id":165285,"date":"2026-02-23T03:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165285\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:37:06","slug":"historical-markers-now-tell-the-stories-of-south-tallahassees-bond-community-in-words-and-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165285\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical markers now tell the stories of South Tallahassee&#8217;s Bond Community in words and images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Tallahassee&#8217;s Bond Community is full of history. Now, that history is displayed on a series of markers ringing the neighborhood&#8217;s Speed-Spencer-Stevens Park. Project leader Jarvis Rosier was among the speakers at the markers&#8217; dedication on Friday&#8217;s, Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;History tells us who we are, what we are, where we&#8217;ve been and what we&#8217;ve been. But more importantly, history tells us where we still must go and what we still must be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And for the once-thriving Bond Community, the best may still lie ahead. Bond Community native Dr. Henry Lewis, the first African American to serve on the Leon County Commission, says the City&#8217;s Neighborhood First&#8221; plan has lots of good things in store for Bond&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plan provides about $15 or $20,000 for new businesses to come into Bond and either get started or even expand if they&#8217;re already here in order to revitalize this neighborhood and make sure that the economy of the neighborhood continues to strengthen as it should.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New home construction is also a part of the Neighborhood First initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Tallahassee&#8217;s Bond Community is full of history. Now, that history is displayed on a series of markers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-165285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}