Capitola, FL

Capitola is a census-designated place in eastern Leon County, Florida, United States, located at County Road 1540 and County Road 1541. The 2020 census counted 247 residents. Capitola is part of the Tallahassee metropolitan area. Evergreen Hills Plantation, a large cotton plantation, occupied the land that is now or extremely close to Capitola. The short version is that Capitola carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Capitola: its past remains attached to the places people use now. From 1908 through the 1940s Capitola was served by the Florida Central Railroad. Capitola is home to Baptist Church which was established in 1926. Capitola is home to Chaires-Capitola Volunteer Fire Department.