Editing Fellsmere, Florida (section)

==History==
[[File:Fellsmere FL Fell Library01.jpg|thumb|left|Fellsmere Library]]

In 1915, Fellsmere became the first municipality in Florida<ref name=flahist/> (or anywhere south of the [[Mason–Dixon line]])<ref name=palmbeachpost/> to grant [[Women's suffrage in the United States|women the right to vote]]. It also, at the same time, held the first election in which [[Suffrage#Business vote|corporations could vote]]. Mrs. Zena M. Dreier was the first woman to cast a vote in the city, and E. Nelson Fell cast a vote on behalf of his company Fellsmere Farms. The city had unanimously adopted a charter in February 1915,<ref name=palmbeachpost>{{cite news |last1=Webb |first1=Kristina |title=This small Florida city let women vote 5 years before the 19th Amendment |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/this-small-florida-city-let-women-vote-years-before-19th-amendment/aELvajCp9v0moNchfWDsfK/ |access-date=October 28, 2018 |work=[[The Palm Beach Post]] |date=November 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029020015/https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/this-small-florida-city-let-women-vote-years-before-19th-amendment/aELvajCp9v0moNchfWDsfK/ |archive-date=October 29, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> which granted these rights, and the city charter was ratified by the state legislature without any notice being paid to this provision. This, despite the fact that several statewide suffrage measures had failed in the legislature that year.<ref name=flahist>{{cite journal|last=Taylor |first=A. Elizabeth |title=The Woman Suffrage Movement in Florida |journal=[[Florida Historical Quarterly]] |volume=36 |issue=1 |date=July 1957 | page=56 | jstor=30138972 |url=http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/SN00154113_0036_001 |access-date=October 28, 2018 | via=[[University of Central Florida]] }}</ref> Women's suffrage was not granted nationally in the United States until five years later, in August 1920, with the passage of the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|19th Amendment]]. 

=== 2023 Fellsmere Floods ===

On November 16, 2023, Fellsmere experienced [[2023 North Indian River County Floods#|major flooding]] after nearly 14 inches of rain fell in the area. These floods came only four months after flooding on July 31, 2023. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Kaila |title=Areas of Indian River County experienced flooding Friday after heavy rain fall |url=https://www.tcpalm.com/picture-gallery/news/2023/11/17/northern-indian-river-county-experiences-flooding-fellsmere-vero-lake-estates/71620512007/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=Treasure Coast |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-10 |title='Some transparency:' Fellsmere residents still fighting to be heard after November flooding |url=https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-indian-river-county/some-transparency-fellsmere-residents-still-fighting-to-be-heard-after-november-flooding |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Slater |first=Nick |title=Fellsmere Water Control District tapping reserves to spend $1.2 million on flood control |url=https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-county/2024/05/14/fellsmere-water-control-district-spends-1-2-million-to-prevent-floods/72975814007/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Treasure Coast |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=November 2023&nbsp; Flooding Event - Roads Impassable |url=https://indianriver.gov/news_detail_T23_R127.php |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=indianriver.gov |language=en}}</ref>