🏠 Bel Air, Florida

United States · Americas · 30.38°N, 84.27°W

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Bel Air is an unincorporated community in Leon County, Florida, United States. It is a suburb on the south side of Tallahassee. Bel Air was once a highly developed and wealthy plantation town during the Antebellum South period that eventually grew to be a prominent African American community. Most notably, the site where Reverend James Page, Florida's first ordained Baptist minister, founded the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, "The first organized black church in Florida." Bel Air grew to be a center for economic and cultural growth, attracting numerous businesses such as the St. Marks Railroad and becoming a place for freed slaves to congregate.

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CountryUnited States
Continent / regionAmericas
Coordinates (approx.)30.38°N, 84.27°W · view on map

Bel Air, Florida is located in United States, in Americas.

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