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The Marker honoring Blount will be installed in the grassy area along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. south of Walnut St. <br /><br />This unveiling event is sponsored by LWVSWIN, obtainer of the marker, and the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL). Following this public event, there will be a reception in the library lobby for all attendees. <br /><br />The new Central Library is believed to have been the approximate location of the Blount home (no longer in existence) in the late 1800s. It was in that home in May 1886, that Lucia Blount hosted Indiana women’s suffrage leader May Wright Sewell, who spoke to a group of women at a parlor meeting to encourage the local suffrage movement. A few days later, the Equal Suffrage Society of the first Congressional District of Indiana was formed with over 150 members.<br /><br />League members Roberta Heiman and Lezlie Simmons did the research and writing to obtain the marker grant. This marker is just one stop along the Women’s Suffrage Trail sponsored by the National Collaboration for Women’s History Sites. For a list and map of locations of other markers, see the NCWHS website at https://ncwhs.org/. <br /><br />This marker was made possible through a grant from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation.