Tallahassee city commissioners are poised to vote on selling the golf course on Santa Rosa Drive to the Capital City Country Club during their meeting on Dec. 10.
Agenda documents say the sale would be for $1,255,000. The commission originally planned to sell the site for $1,150,000 but opted for a second appraisal.
The potential sale has not sat well with some neighbors and local historians. Unmarked graves of slaves on the site were discovered in 2019 by the National Park Service. Historians told us the land used to be a slave plantation, dating back to the 1830s. They believe dozens of former slaves are buried near the 7th hole…