Born in the Bahamas in 1898, Branhilda Richardson Knowles immigrated to the Deerfield Beach area in 1922. Knowles was trained as a midwife, and due to Jim Crow era segregation, helped deliver babies for the African American community in Deerfield . . . — — Map (db m157662) HM
The settlement of Deerfield was founded on the southeast coast of Florida with the coming of Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railroad in 1896. In 1902, two Methodist missionaries began holding religious services for the community. These early . . . — — Map (db m100392) HM
In 1906, Deerfield Beach established Colored School #9 to educate African American children prevented from attending white-only schools in Broward County. A one-room, wooden structure located near NW 1st Avenue, it was destroyed in the Hurricane of . . . — — Map (db m271785) HM
