TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Celebrating America\u2019s 250th lasts the whole month at Tallahassee\u2019s Union Bank Museum. <\/p>\n
Friday marked their first \u201cFreedom Fridays\u201d pop-up exhibit highlighting the building\u2019s role in reconstruction as the National Freedman\u2019s Savings and Trust Company.<\/p>\n
The Museum of Florida History team uncovered the free slaves who started banking there in the years after the civil war. <\/p>\n
Will Turner, Florida Museum of History Curator of Education said shared the importance of this exhibit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe temporary panels around the building here, each tell the story of one of the bank patrons whose records we have looked into genealogical records, the deposit book records. And they each kind of have their own unique ties to Tallahassee and Tallahassee history,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n
There will be different exhibits highlighting the bank\u2019s other eras of Tallahassee history the next two Fridays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
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