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The Rosewood Settlement: A Story about the Idella Carrier's Families of Rosewood: Includes African American Family Accounts of the Mcleods's Family by Harriet Frost

Sponsored by the RICF Foundation

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The Rosewood Idella Carrier Foundation was founded in 1998 in Washington, DC by Dexton and Harriet Frost. The foundation was named in honor of Idella Carrier of Rosewood, Florida. She was the great-grandmother of the Frost Family. After fleeing the atrocities which occurred at Rosewood in 1923, she moved and settle in Tampa, Florida. She owned 30 acres of land in Rosewood. Her parents were Isaac and Lydia Carrier, the first African American settlers of the Rosewood Settlement. Her last known address before her death in 1933 was 703 Tyler Street. She lived and work in the Central Avenue Section of Tampa.​

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