In 1910, the newly established Fellsmere Farms Company hired Black laborers to build the Fellsmere Railroad and cook for the survey party, and early Black families including the Allens, Browns, Butters, Fosters, Fredericks, Johnsons, Mays, McCrurys, Montgomerys, Olivers, Wiggins, and Wrights, primarily from Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, provided labor essential to developing Fellsmere. Because of strict Jim Crow laws, African Americans were restricted to two Black-only subdivisions northeast of and outside the original platted Town of Fellsmere. Fellsmere Farms Company employees M.E. Hall, J.G. Carter, and R.L. James initially platted the Hall, Carter, and James Subdivision with 100 lots in 1913 and 74 more in 1914, and F.E. Whipple created the Lincoln Park Subdivision in 1926. As packinghouses, citrus groves, and vegetable fields needed more workers, the community expanded, and by the mid-1920s around 24 Black families lived there. In 1949, Edward and Jessie King subdivided 76 more lots on Fellsmere Farms Lot No. 1353. Fellsmere began to integrate following civil rights legislation in the 1960s, and the City of Fellsmere annexed the Lincoln Park Subdivision in 2014. Three churches defined the early community: the Missionary Baptist Church, organized in 1911; the Church of God in Christ, established in 1919; and the Bethel A.M.E. Church, founded in 1925. Because these churches were built on Lincoln Street, locals called it Church Street. Classes for colored children began in temporary quarters in 1913, and the Fellsmere Elementary School held classes in a church until 1938, when a two-classroom school was built at the southeast corner of Willow Street and 100th Place. The school closed in 1967 and was demolished in 1996, and the Fellsmere Head Start Center was built on the site in 1977. During the 1930s through 1960s, many residents worked for the Fellsmere Sugar Company, the Okeelanta Sugar Company, and Gulf and Western Industries as laborers, truck drivers, and mechanics, while most women worked as maids, laundresses, or in packinghouses. Residents spent leisure time at a Negro League baseball field at the east end of Lincoln Street from the 1930s to 1975, home to The Rockets and other teams. Today, Fellsmere’s historic African American community still exists, though its population has diminished.