A historical marker in Memorial Park pays tribute to Huntington native Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneering codebreaker and cryptanalyst during the First and Second World Wars.
The U.S. Senate passed a resolution honoring Friedman’s work as a cryptanalyst and her contributions to the field in April 2019, and the U.S. Coast Guard announced the naming of a ship in her honor in 2020. Friedman was born in 1892 and died in 1980 at the age of 88.