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Historic People  | Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston was raised in the all-black town of Eatonville, Florida, though she moved north at eighteen. She spent a year at Howard University studying with the influential African-American scholar Alain Locke; it was at Howard that Hurston’s earliest stories were published, in the university’s literary magazine and in Opportunity, from which she received an award for her story "Spunk" in 1925. |
|  | David D. "Deacon" Jones
David D. "Deacon" Jones (born December 9, 1938 in Eatonville, Florida) nicknamed "Secretary of Defense" is an American athlete and actor. Jones played professional football, and is considered to be one of the greatest defensive ends of all time. |
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Rev. John Hurston
Rev. John Hurston was the Town’s third mayor and the second pastor of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church. His daughter, Zora Neale Hurston, is the widely acclaimed writer, folklorist, and cultural anthropologist. . |
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Joseph E. Clarke
Joseph E. Clarke and others acquired 112 acres from the good will of Lewis Lawrence, a northern philanthropist, and Josiah Eaton, a local landowner, and developed the original city limits of the Town of Eatonville. |
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Lewis Lawrence
Lewis Lawrence, in honor of Josiah Eaton made the recommendation on August 15, 1887, 27 electors gathered at the town hall and cast their votes for Columbus H. Boger as mayor; Joe Clarke, Matthew Brazell, David Yelder, E.L. Horn, and E.J. Shines as aldermen and for several other town officers. Thus, the first town to be organized, governed, and incorporated by African American citizens in this country was born. |
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Russell C. Calhoun
Russell C. Calhoun and his wife Mary came from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to serve as the first administrators of the Hungerford Normal and Industrial School founded in 1889. |
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