At a February 1915 meeting at the Dixie Theater, Fellsmere citizens unanimously accepted articles of incorporation whose charter included a unique provision granting women full and equal privilege for suffrage in municipal elections. Because local bills seldom received close scrutiny from legislators, the equal suffrage provision went unnoticed, and when Governor Park Trammell signed the act creating the town of Fellsmere, he in effect gave women the right to vote in its municipal elections. In the June 19, 1915 city election, Mrs. Zena M. Dreier became the first woman to cast a ballot in Fellsmere, in all of Florida, and south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Town residents took pride in this right and urged neighboring municipalities to follow the Fellsmere Way to equal suffrage. Although a U.S. constitutional amendment granted suffrage to women in 1919, Fellsmere had led the way.