Resources

Web

State Archives of Florida

• Call/Brevard Family Papers 
  
• Richard Keith Call Papers (originals reside at the Florida Historical Society, Cocoa, Florida)
• Governors Guide: Richard Keith Call 
  
• Governors Guide: LeRoy Collins 
  
• “The Grove: The Legacy of the Call and Collins Families” (Photographic Exhibit) 

Florida State University

• Thomas LeRoy Collins Papers 
  

University of Florida

• Samuel Proctor Oral History Program 
  

University of South Florida

• LeRoy Collins Papers 
  

Selected Printed Sources

Baptist, Edward E. Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier before the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Collins, LeRoy. Forerunners Courageous: Stories of Frontier Florida. Colcade Publishers: Tallahassee, 1971.

Doherty, Herbert J. Richard Keith Call, Southern Unionist. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1961.

Divoll, Leslie. “The Grove: Historic Structure Part I.” Unpublished report prepared for the Florida Department of State, 1992 (available by request from the Florida Master Site File).

Dyckman, Martin. Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2006.

Ellis, Mary Louise and William Warren Rogers. Favored Land: Tallahassee. Norfolk: The Donning Company Publishers, 1988.

Long, Ellen Call. Florida Breezes... Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1962 [1883].

Menton, Jane Aurell. The Grove: A Florida Home through Seven Generations. Tallahassee: Sentry Press, 1998.

Mormino, Gary. Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2008.

Paisley, Clifton. From Cotton to Quail: An Agricultural Chronicle of Leon County, Florida, 1860-1967. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1968.

Rabby, Glenda. The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida. Athens: University of Georgia, 2016 [reprint].

Rivers, Larry Eugene. Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999.

Thompson, (James) Maurice. A Tallahassee Girl. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1881.

Wagy, Tom R. Governor LeRoy Collins of Florida. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985.

Wright, J. Leitch. Creeks and Seminoles: The Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.