Flora Black (1870-1951)

Flora Black (1870-1951) is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Somerset County, dedicated 1989.

Mason Dixon Hwy. (US 219)

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On this farm lived Flora Black, a civic leader active in the county and Commonwealth. Here on October 14, 1914, she organized the Society of Farm Women of Pennsylvania. In the ensuing years, groups in many Pennsylvania counties became Society affiliates, in furtherance of its aim to strengthen the role of farm women and promote better conditions in farm homes across the Commonwealth.

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1872 · Westmoreland, Fayette counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1919 · State of West Virginia and part of Maryland (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1924 · Maryland and Delaware. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1927 · Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Pennsylvania, 1903, covering the location of Flora Black (1870-1951), with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Pennsylvania, 1903, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Flora Black (1870-1951)

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