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Century ‘Millennium’ Time Capsule Buried In 2000 To Be Opened Friday
January 1, 2025
Where were you back in the year 2000? What everyday life thing or mementos were important to you?
Come Friday, we’ll find out what Century residents in 2000 wanted to share with the future and our 2025 selves.
The Town of Century will be opening the “Century Millenium Time Capsule” that has been buried at town hall since 2000.
The vault containing the time capsule has already been unearthed at will be opened at 1 p.m. Friday, January 3.
Century Town Hall is located at 7995 North Century Boulevard.
Pictured top: The Century Millenium Time Capsule was buried outside the Century Town Hall. Pictured below: The vault containing the capsule has been unearthed and will be opened on Friday. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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15 Responses to “Century ‘Millennium’ Time Capsule Buried In 2000 To Be Opened Friday”
I think the time capsule is an awesome idea & it doesn’t have to stay buried 100 years, as someone mentioned, I don’t think there’s a set time for it to stay buried & so what if it’s opened a couple of days late. Century is a beautiful place & I believe that it’s being governed by the people, for the people & it could be a horrible place to live, but it’s not. I believe the Mayor has acted in the best interest of the town & will continue to do so. The crime rate is low & it’s a safe place to live & raise a family & it’s one of the cheapest places to live around here. I see great things for the town of Century in the near future, it’s growing exponentially & will soon be one of the best places to live in Northwest Florida. It’s a beautiful town full of amazing people & anyone would be lucky to live there.
Anyone not satisfied with city management should step up and run for council. I know the current administration is running things with integrity.
What a neat idea. We should all be excited about something fun and see what they find. With all the bad things going on in the world we should embrace something to rally around to help connect us all instead of tearing one another down
@eric. All towns have a town manager. Surely you aren’t suggesting that one man should know everything about everything and even if he did, expecting him to have time to attend to all town business is a bit of a stretch. Then add to that the fact that there is very little compensation for the position, I think we need to be thanking the people who are giving their time and energy to try and improve the condition of our town.
I was a firefighter along with my husband at that time it was buried. Maybe after they open it, they will add momentoes from today’s era and bury it again for another 25 years and continue doing it that way. It will be interesting to see how much changes.
@anne. Thankful for my first amendment rights. Now I’ll comment even more about the inept leadership of Century.
We were there when it was buried. I would like to be there when it is opened., I think Mr Barnes had high hopes for our town. He would be so disappointed the way things are now. I wish it could be like it use to be but we just don;t have enough people to care anymore,
@anne … if the people in century could manage themselves, they wouldn’t need suggestions from everyone. It’s sad that incompetent people keep electing incompetent people to “run” the town. The biggest joke in Florida is century. The last good joke was hiring a mayor that said he doesn’t know what he’s doing, so they had to hire a firm to help – instead of either not taking the job or resigning immediately. Nope. That would take integrity.
How about a New Year’s Resolution to let Century operate on its own without suggestions from those of us who don’t live there? Let the residents strive to thrive in 2025.
I remember when we buried one in front of Bratt Elementary around 1988 or 89. Sometimes I wonder if anyone else even remembers doing it. I think I was in 4th or 5th grade.
Knowing the town of Century, that time capsule won’t be in the box when they open it…
From 2000? I will miss my pager forever! It didn’t give callers the chance to leave lengthy messages. I never wanted a cell phone and they were expensive back then. The pager gave me the time to consider what I would say when I called back. It was good for business.
25 years? Odd.
Never heard of a time capsule with that short of a time span. Usually a 100 years or more.
Hurry and open it. There may be some instructions on how to run a city.
It clearly states that it should be opened 1/1/25, not 1/3. The jokes about the people running Century write themselves.