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Florida State University Tallahassee Special Collections, Robert Manning Strozier Library. Florida State University is one of the largest and oldest of the nine institutions of the University System of Florida. The school had its beginnings as early as 1823 when the Territorial Legislature began to plan a higher education system. In 1851 the Florida Legislature planned two seminaries, one to be east of the Suwannee River, the other west. By 1854 the city of Tallahassee established a school for boys which the State took over in 1855.