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Fellsmere is a city in Indian River County, Florida, United States. It is home of the Fellsmere Frog Leg Festival and the now closed National Elephant Center. Fellsmere is the first place in Florida where women were allowed to vote. In a municipal election on June 19, 1915, resident Zena M. Dreier became the first woman to legally cast a ballot in the American South, five years before the 19th Amendment established women’s suffrage nationally.

The population was 5,197 at the 2010 census, up from 3,813 at the 2000 census. As of 2018, the estimated population was 5,754. Fellsmere is part of the Sebastian–Vero Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Fellsmere city overview:
Name:	Fellsmere city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Florida
County:	Indian River County
Elevation:	23 ft (7 m)
Total Area:	57.79 sq mi (149.67 km²)
Land Area:	57.58 sq mi (149.13 km²)
Water Area:	0.21 sq mi (0.54 km²)
Total Population:	4,834
Population Density:	83.95/sq mi (32.41/km²)
ZIP code:	32948
Area code:	772
FIPS code:	1222100
GNISfeature ID:	0282414
Website:	www.cityoffellsmere.org

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History

Fellsmere in 1915 became the first town in Florida (or anywhere south of the Mason–Dixon line) to grant women the right to vote. It also at the same time held the first election in which corporations could vote. Mrs. Zena M. Dreier was the first woman to cast a vote in the town, and E. Nelson Fell cast a vote on behalf of his company Fellsmere Farms. The town had unanimously adopted a charter in February 1915 which granted these rights, and the town 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. Women’s suffrage was not granted nationally in the U.S. until five years later (in August 1920) with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

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Geography

Fellsmere is located in central Indian River county at 27°46′00″N 80°35′55″W / 27.766771°N 80.598642°W / 27.766771; -80.598642.

To the north: Palm Bay
To the west: Blue Cypress Lake
To the east: Sebastian

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 57.7 square miles (149.4 km), of which 57.5 square miles (148.9 km) are land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km), or 0.45%, are water.