Tommie (Tommy) Camilla Stephens Barfield (1888 – 1949) was instrumental in the education system of

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, as its first School Superintendent. Tommie Barfield Elementary School, at which her Great Floridian plaque is located, was named for her. Tommie moved to

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in 1901 with her family and married James Madison Barfield in 1906. In 1910, she turned her home into a hotel and began to make and sell jellies and candies to her guests. File:Tommie_Barfield_Plaque.png, Indian Hill Street Plaque

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