Fellsmere resident Zena M. Dreier became the first woman in Florida and the southern United States to cast her vote in a municipal non-school election on this date in 1915. Mrs. Dreier cast her vote five years before the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted full voting rights to women. The City of Fellsmere’s progressive charter included suffrage for women and corporations, and the state government simply did not notice this verbiage written into the city’s charter, which had been approved earlier that year.
~Florida Historical Society
