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TOWN'S HISTORY

135.5 miles

Founded in 1886

RICH OF BLACK

HISTORY

Zora Neale Hurston grew

up here

Family

Oldest black founded

city still here today

2400 people today

6 miles

Why It Was Founded

Eatonville was originally founded by Union Army captain Josiah Eaton, but then sold the land to some African-American men who wanted to start their own city.

In 1882, Joseph C. Clarke bought some land from Mayor Josiah C. Eaton. He began selling a lot more

land to black families creating a city for a black community to form and create its own culture and town, without having to deal with the un-fair rules and acts of the white men.

Josiah Eaton

Mayor of Eatonville

Notable Events in it's History

Zora Neale Hurston was born here and is extremely well known.

The town was formed after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863

Industrial School was founded in 1897 which became the most important school for blacks in the state of Florida for years.

Eatonville was the first incorporated African-American community in the nation. Some 100 such communities were founded during the same era; only about a dozen remain.

240.2 miles

Joseph C. Clarke

Buyer of Eatonville

Life During the Early 1900's

It centered on Southern cotton agriculture. African Americans grew cotton under a variety of contracts and institutional arrangements.

Many were tenant farmers, renting a piece of land and some of their tools and supplies, and paying the rent at the end of the growing season with a portion of their harvest.

Records indicate that white and black farm laborers were paid similar wages, and that white and black farmers worked under similar contracts for similar rental rates. Whites in general, however, were much more likely to own land and blacks were much less likely to hold better-paying skilled jobs, and they were more likely to work for lower-paying companies.

The people in the town had really close family ties because they were all so close. During the great depression while many white families separated, black families were able to stick together.

Zora Neale Hurston

THE END

Industrial School

Est 1897

History of Eatonville, Florida

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