Portrait of Ellen Call Long - Tallahassee, Florida.
Dublin Core
Title
Portrait of Ellen Call Long - Tallahassee, Florida.
Subject
Tallahassee (Fla.)
Cemeteries
The Grove Museum
Description
From Florida Memory: First white child born in Leon County, the daughter of Gov. Richard Keith Call and Mary Letitia Kirkman. Author of "Florida Breezes." Born: 1825. Died: Dec. 18, 1905.
Like other women to follow her at The Grove, Ellen was an entrepreneur. In order to hold onto the family home, she devised various strategies to earn income.
Ellen was the first resident to operate The Grove as a hotel, intermittently admitting travelers into her home beginning in the mid-1870s. Ellen also built detached greenhouses to grow vegetables and even produced silk on the property."
Like other women to follow her at The Grove, Ellen was an entrepreneur. In order to hold onto the family home, she devised various strategies to earn income.
Ellen was the first resident to operate The Grove as a hotel, intermittently admitting travelers into her home beginning in the mid-1870s. Ellen also built detached greenhouses to grow vegetables and even produced silk on the property."
Source
Original digital item located in Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/32557
Date
1880?
Type
Photographs
Identifier
RC09790
JB_CallFamilyCemetery_I016
Collection
Citation
“Portrait of Ellen Call Long - Tallahassee, Florida.,” Call-Collins Family Cemetery , accessed May 2, 2024, https://callfamilycemeterythegrove.omeka.net/items/show/16.