Sarah “Sadie” Price is an example of a woman who became a success in the field of science at a time when very few women were able to do so.  The Price family moved to Bowling Green during the time of the Civil War, and by the 1880s Price had begun her career as an amateur botanist.  The new species that she discovered included varieties in the aster, clematis, dogwood, groundnut, sour grass, and violet families.  

  In 1894, she won first prize for her  watercolor images of Kentucky plants at the Chicago Columbian Exposition’s Herbarium Sketch Work Exhibit.  During her career she published three books, including the Fern Collectors Handbook and Herbarium (1896).