FSU 175: Honoring a legacy of military service and student-veteran success

But military service has been woven into the fabric of FSU for more than a century and a half. The West Florida Seminary opened in 1857 on the site of today’s Westcott Building, representing the oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida.

Florida State University’s history began in 1851, when the Florida Legislature established two seminaries of learning and selected Tallahassee as the site of the western institution.