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Mayor Anthony Grant Eatonville Mayor Anthony Grant  As Mayor of the Town of Eatonville, I am excited about your visit to our website and would like to welcome you on behalf of the Town Council and the citizens of the Town of Eatonville as you prepare to walk through a historical journey of the first and oldest African American incorporated municipality in America.
The historical Town of Eatonville has birthed great leaders such as the Rev. John Hurston, who 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; Joseph E. Clarke and others who 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; 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; and Russell C. Calhoun and his wife Mary, who came from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to serve as the first administrators of the Hungerford Normal and Industrial School founded in 1889.
Please feel free to share any comments that you may have regarding the website design, we value your input towards our efforts to improve our website in hopes of serving our community better.
Town of Eatonville Mayor Anthony Grant
407-623-1313 ext. 223
agrant@townofeatonville.org
Executive Assistant to the Mayor, Jacqueline Cockerham
407-623-1313 ext. 234
jcockerham@townofeatonville.org
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