I should add that the legislature at one point designated "colleges" calling them academies and envisioned on in east florida and one in west florida, and the law specifies the Suwanee River as the dividing line. Thus the "West Florida Academy" was created in Tallahassee...and if you follow through its "genealogy," it ultimately became FSU. The most common designation for middle Florida that I've seen is the area between the Apalachicola and the Suwanee Rivers. Everything west and east of those physical distinctions were west and east florida. This may be simply because Escambia as one of the first counties created in Florida had as its eastern boundary, the Suwanee River. Dean Dean DeBolt University Librarian Special Collections and West Florida Archives John C. Pace Library University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 Tele: 850-474-2213; Fax: 850-474-3338