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Preservation Month 2023 - Susie King Taylor
For Preservation Month, Florida Trust Board Member Ennis Davis shared an impactful story: Susie King Taylor's remarkable life.
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- Mar 26
- 1 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Blanche Armwood
Blanche Armwood is remembered for her dedication to equality, education and reform on behalf of the African American community in Tampa.
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Florida Trust
- Mar 20
- 2 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Brooksville
by Natalie Kahler, Executive Director of Brooksville Main Street From left to right: Floride Lydia Pearson Fleming, May Mann Jennings,...
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Florida Trust
- Mar 10
- 4 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Eartha White
by Sarah Virginia Dimitrascu. Originally appeared in the The Jaxson. Eartha and her mother Clara White circa 1910 (left). Eartha circa...
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Florida Trust
- Mar 6
- 1 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Carita Doggett Corse
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Carita Doggett Corse
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Florida Trust
- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Perhaps the best known advocate of environmentalism in Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas was also a lifelong advocate for women’s rights....
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Florida Trust
- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Betty Mae Tiger Jumper
Betty Mae Tiger Jumper has numerous honorifics: the first female chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, founder of one of the most...
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Florida Trust
- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
Women Who Have Made Florida History: Maria Mestre de los Dolores Andreu
Maria Mestre de los Dolores Andreu is perhaps best known as the first female lighthouse keeper in the state of Florida, but this was not...
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Florida Trust
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Louise Rebecca Pinnell
Born on March 31, 1877, Louise Rebecca Pinnell moved to Bronson, Levy County, Florida during the 1890s. There in 1898, she was...
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Florida Trust
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune
Born on July 10, 1875, Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an educator, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist who founded the...
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Florida Trust
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Zora Neale Hurston
A noted anthropologist and author, Zora Neale Hurson spent her childhood years growing up in Eatonville, the first incorporated town in...
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Florida Trust
- Mar 22, 2021
- 2 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Marion Manley
Guest blog post by Jim Moore In commemoration of March as Women’s History Month, the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation proudly...
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Florida Trust
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
Florida Women Who Have Made History: Henrietta Dozier
"How did I happen to take up architecture - an unusual occupation for a woman? Well, even in my childhood I wanted to study architecture,...
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