14 Facts About Stoneman Douglas High

1. Stoneman Douglas High was an influential leader in Florida, several buildings are named for her.

2. Stoneman Douglas High appears as a major supporting character in the 2014 point and click adventure A Golden Wake.

3. Stoneman Douglas High was posthumously inducted into the National Wildlife Federation Hall of Fame in 1999, and the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2000.

4. Stoneman Douglas High began accruing honors in her early days writing for The Miami Herald.

5. Stoneman Douglas High served as a charter member of the first American Civil Liberties Union chapter organized in the South in the 1950s.

6. Stoneman Douglas High was giving a speech addressing the harmful practices of the Army Corps of Engineers when the colonel in attendance dropped his pen on the floor.

7. In 1948 Stoneman Douglas High served on the Coconut Grove Slum Clearance Committee, with a friend of hers named Elizabeth Virrick, who was horrified to learn that no running water or sewers were connected to the racially segregated part of Coconut Grove.

8. Stoneman Douglas High was not impressed with the reception the group got from the Florida Legislature.

9. Stoneman Douglas High spent time with geologist Garald Parker, who discovered that South Florida's sole freshwater source was the Biscayne Aquifer, and it was filled by the Everglades.

10. Stoneman Douglas High became involved with the Miami Theater, and wrote some one-act plays that were fashionable in the 1930s.

11. Stoneman Douglas High was given an assignment in 1916 to write a story on the first woman from Miami to join the US Naval Reserve.

12. Stoneman Douglas High passionately opposed the governor of Florida, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, and his attempts to drain the Everglades.

13. Stoneman Douglas High was married to Marjory while already married to another woman.

14. Stoneman Douglas High lived to 108, working until nearly the end of her life for Everglades restoration.