Women pioneers in southeast Florida
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Author | : William E. McGoun |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781561641574 |
- Meet the pioneers of the Palm Beach area, the Treasure Coast, and Lake Okeechobee in this collection of well-told, fact-filled stories of the 1690s through the 1990s - Well-researched and dotted with photos from The Palm Beach Post archives - Jonathan Dickinson survived a shipwreck and hostile Indian attacks near Jupiter Inlet in 1696 - A quiet healer named Dr. Thomas Leroy Jefferson tended to the African-American community in the Styx, home to those who had come to help build Henry Flagler's railroad - Marian O'Brien was a founding leader of Clewiston and Moore Haven, where she made sure women had the right to vote even before the Nineteenth Amendment - A great addition to your collection of Floridiana
Author | : William E McGoun |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2015-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1561647675 |
The history of the Palm Beach area, the Treasure Coast, and Lake Okeechobee is one of turbulence, growth, and especially change. Meet the visionaries and outlaws, physicians and poets who shaped this region of southeast Florida from the 1690s through the 1990s. Author William McGoun's stories are sometimes hair-raising, sometimes amusing, and always engaging. Well researched and dotted with photos from The Palm Beach Post archives, this collection of mini-biographies reads like a who's who of Florida history.
Author | : Delta Kappa Gamma Society. Mu State, Fla |
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Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Teachers |
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Author | : Mary Helen Wachob |
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Florida |
ISBN | : 9780983820352 |
Author | : Charles William Pierce |
Publisher | : Coral Gables, Fla : University of Miami Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Karen Yvonne Hamilton |
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Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2020-03-20 |
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ISBN | : 9781734785807 |
Lostmans Heritage tells the true story behind the Hamilton family that Peter Matthiessen first introduced to the world in his novel, "Killing Mr. Watson." The book follows the author's journey as she searches for her ancestors from the slave country of Savannah to the wilds of the Florida Everglades. Hamilton follows her ancestor, Richard Hamilton and his sons to the ending of an era when the National Park Service evicted the residents, the pioneers, of the Everglades. Along the way she uncovers secrets and stories, polygamy, bootlegging, fist fights, murders, gangsters, killers, and tales of tomahawks and missing schoolteachers.Noted Florida historian, Charlton Tebeau, once said, "The Hamiltons, to the disappointment of the romanticists, were neither pirates nor smugglers nor fugitives, but simple fishermen." While Tebeau was fascinated by the Hamiltons, and often referred to them as one of the 'lost tribes' of the islands, my research proves that he was wrong about them. They were fugitives, and they were smugglers. The Everglades was not a place for the average man at that time. You did what you had to do to feed your family.The men and women who settled in the Florida Everglades before the Civil War thrived in an environment that was dangerous and wild and ever changing. While others came and went, the pioneers faced every challenge nature and man threw at them and carried on. They may have migrated from island to island now and again, but the Everglades were their home. And they did what they had to do to survive.
Author | : Ryusuke Kawai |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813065429 |
Florida Historical Society Harry T. And Harriette V. Moore Award Opening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that left behind an important legacy. Ryusuke Kawai tells how a Japanese farming settlement came to be in south Florida, far from other Japanese communities in the United States. Kawai’s captivating story takes readers back to the early twentieth century, a time when Japanese citizens were beginning to look to possibilities for individual wealth and success overseas. Poor, unlucky in love, and dreaming of returning rich to marry his sweetheart, a young man named Sukeji Morikami boarded a passenger steamer at the port of Yokohama and set off to make his fortune. Morikami was drawn by promises from his compatriot Jo Sakai, founder of an agricultural community called Yamato between Boca Raton and Delray Beach, Florida. Sakai extolled the prospects of raising pineapples and other crops amid the state’s economic boom and exciting developments like Flagler’s East Coast Railway. This book follows the experiences of Morikami and his fellow Yamato settlers through World War II, when the struggling colony closed for good. Morikami held on to his hopes for Yamato until the end, when at last, the lone survivor, he donated the land that would become the widely visited Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens. Celebrating the lives of ordinary men and women who left their homes and traveled an enormous distance to settle and raise their families in Florida, this book brings to light a unique moment in the state’s history that few people know about today.
Author | : Leslie Kemp Poole |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2015-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813059410 |
In Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in how the Sunshine State values its many and marvelous natural resources. At the beginning of the twentieth century women didn’t have the vote, but by the end of the century they were founding issue-specific groups, like Friends of the Everglades, and running state and federal agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. They set the foundation for the next century’s environmental agenda, which came to include the idea of sustainable development, which meshes ecology and economy to enhance energy efficiency and the function of natural systems. This is an indispensable history that not only underscores the importance of women in the environmental movement but also shows how as a collective force they forever altered how others saw women’s roles in society.
Author | : Deanne Hanna-Ewers |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2023-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1728325250 |
History $??.?? Have you ever wondered about the first Bahamian woman to become involved in politics or to run a newspaper? This book answers those questions and more about significant Women would have achieved ‘first’ in categories such as: Business Religion Medicine Education Communication Politics Law Government Sports Music This book is filled with historical information yet, it is an easy read. The author, Deanne Hanna-Ewers has compiled vital information that offers valuable insight into the growth and leadership of Bahamian Women. This is a book of a lifetime that can be passed on from generation to generation. It is also a great teaching tool for the classroom; Women’s Studies, Civics Studies, Social Studies, as well as History. This book gives the recognition deserving of notable Bahamian women that have aspired to greatness in their own right! This is a book that will inspire girls to become women of significance and touch the hearts of ordinary women to become extraordinary.