Celebrate Women’s History Month with BCA! 

Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum is rich in women’s history, with many amazing women eternally resting here, including:

• Susan Blow, opened the first kindergarten in the United States;
• Martha Brown, a 3-Time Gold Medalist for Swimming;
• Gerty Cori, a Nobel prize-winning scientist featured on a postage stamp;
• Adaline Weston Couzins, who founded the St. Louis Union Aid Society to help Union Soldiers during the Civil War;
• Dr. Helen Elizabeth Nash, a respected children's health advocate and medical pioneer who broke racial barriers to become the first African-American physician to join the attending staff at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the first African-American woman to join the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine;
• Edna Gellhorn, a Civil Rights Activist during WWII and a suffragist who traveled the country in support of the League of Women voters;
• Mary Meachum, an American abolitionist who dedicated her life to educating and freeing enslaved people;
• Virginia Minor, a suffragist who is best remembered as the plaintiff in Minor v. Happersett, an 1874 United States Supreme Court case in which she unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote;
• Mary Metcalf Rexford, a WWII ‘doughnut girl’ and one of the first women to land on Utah Beach after the invasion;
• Florence Wyman Richardson, one of the early workers for the St. Louis Symphony Society and the first president of the St. Louis Equal Suffrage League;
• Irma Rombauer, who bested Julia Child with the first published edition of “The Joy of Cooking” in the 1930s;
• Sarah Teasdale, winner of the first Pulitzer Price for poetry in 1918;
• Ida Goodwin Woolfolk, community leader and a legend in African-American education.

• Seating is limited and reservations are required.
• We ask that everyone arrive at least 15 minutes early for a prompt departure.
• The Trolley is climate controlled but weather appropriate clothing is suggested as opportunities to disembark from the vehicle are available.