Books by Rodney Carlisle

This unique guidebook, organized in chronological order, is a richly illustrated description of more than 100 sites in and around Tallahassee FLorida that together reveal the place of the city and region in history. The book details a wide variety of plantations, forts, homes, churches, streetscapes, museums, and historic ships. From Spanish exploration, second and third Colonial periods, Territorial Era, early statehood, Civil War, Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, the 1890''s through the 20s up until present time.

This guidebook provides a tour of more than twenty of Florida's historic pioneer and cracker villages. With more than 50 photographs, it is an indispensable guide for tourists as well as for parents and teachers looking for a meaningful glimpse of the vanishing lifestyles of Florida's pioneers.