For a small town located on Florida's interior, Fellsmere is packed with history.

The city of 5,000, about 100 miles southeast of Orlando and 150 miles northwest of Miami, in 1915 was the first place in Florida where women were allowed to vote.

Almost a century later, Fellsmere was briefly home to the National Elephant Center, a sanctuary for the giant beasts that has since closed.

For the past 35 years, though, Fellsmere has mostly been famous for its frog legs.

In the early 1990s, a group of locals decided to host a frog leg festival to raise money for the town's parks and recreation department. In doing so, they launched a tradition that landed the quiet community in the Guinness World Records.

For the first festival, froggers scoured nearby watering holes until they had rounded up nearly 500 pounds of meat from the amphibious critters, along with swamp cabbage, grits and coleslaw to serve as side items. The organizers put up a few posters around town and in neighboring communities to spread the word.

They set up fryers at the historic old school building, which now serves as Fellsmere City Hall, hoping some people would show up. They did. And they have........

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