Important Central Florida sites in women’s history
Sites to visit on a tank of gas important to women’s history in Central Florida
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This Women’s History Month, there are a number of stops on the Florida Women’s Heritage Trail right here in Central Florida you can visit to learn more about the contributions ladies have made to history right here in the Sunshine State.
All you need is some time and a tank of gas to do it.
BREVARD
, Tebeau-Field Library, 435 Brevard Avenue, Cocoa, FL 32922 (321) 690-1971
In 1927, Jeanette Thurber Conner of New Smyrna Beach organized the Florida State Historical Society with Colonel John B. Stetson, Jr. It later merged with the Florida Historical Society which acquired the current building in 1997 to house its growing collection of maps and historical documents.
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Motorists see the name of Florida troubadour Gamble Rogers on Interstate 95 on signs pointing toward the state recreational area named for him. He drowned at Flagler Beach on Oct. 10, 1991, in a heroic attempt to save a tourist caught in a riptide. Both men perished.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 by Renata Sago (NPR)
Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins, posing in a garden, one of her favorite places.
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Ella Augusta Johnson Dinkins was the oldest resident of Eatonville, Fla., one of the oldest Black incorporated towns. She died last month at home in her sleep or, as town residents put it, “on her own terms.” She was 102.
Dinkins was a fiery elder who loved God, gardening, and a good town committee meeting. She also knew the Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston and helped initiate the festival that has brought more than a million people to the area since its start in 1990.
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Homero Giviria, 76, walks to his job at Aventura Mall barefooted with his dry shoes in a plastic bag through Biscayne Lake Gardens apartment complex in Aventura, Florida on Monday, December 23, 2019.
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