Rowena
Dean, c-1878
First school teacher (foreground) She taught the first
two years of school, before leaving to return up north
One
fine day in the fall of 1876, Mrs. Hettie Austin, a small,
petite lady was traveling around the new community of
DeLand in a two wheeled ox cart trying to raise the funds
to build a church. She came across Henry DeLand; he gave
her the land and a thousand dollars for the material to
build it with on the Boulevard contingent upon it also
being used as a school.
