Florence Museum

During World War I, the League of Woman's Services operated the Blue Bird Tea Room to raise funds for the Red Cross. After the Tea Room closed, 2, 500 remained in the organization's bank account. Miss Jane Beverley Evans, a Florence community leader, artist and member of the League, met a Mr. Chapman of the Santa Fe Museum, now the Museum of New Mexico, while traveling in the Southwest during 1924-25. Mr. Chapman was selling a surplus of Indian pottery to other museums. Miss Evans reorganized the Tea Room Committee into a museum in order to purchase pottery in the amount of $400.