Florida’s Female Pioneers
Join the Historical Society of Avon Park for Peggy Macdonald’s Florida Female Pioneers. Florida’s Female Pioneers explores some of the founding women who have shaped Florida, including Esther Hill Hawks, a physician who ran the first racially integrated school in Florida. Harriet Beecher Stowe kick-started Florida’s tourism industry with her 1873 book, Palmetto Leaves. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, the first in her family to be born into freedom, became one
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