1. https://www.usefulplants.org/index.php/fruiting-plants/fruiting-shrubs/item/fig?category_id=68

2. https://almostedenplants.com/shopping/products/c137-se-figs-by-regions/

3. http://ediblelandscaping.com/products/shrubs/Figs/

 

Celeste group is among earliest ripening

They are Honey, Sugar, Adriatic, Bordeaux and Dark Berry...the often mentioned gateway figs are Italian Honey, Celeste, Verte, Negronne and Hardy Chicago respectively

Might be good for a breadth of types:

LSU Purple - sugar cultivar, "maple sugar" flavor

https://almostedenplants.com/shopping/products/921-lsu-purple-fig/

https://mountainfigs.net/varieties/varieties-a-l/lsu-purple/

Brown Turkey

http://almostedenplants.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=920

To me, honey figs are those that taste like honey.  Here are some amazing tasting honey figs that I grow in NC. https://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/honey-figs-defined-7207447

Peter's Honey   -- one of my best tasting honey figs---very rich

LaGoccia d'Oro  --  strong honey flavored fig

Votata  --  flat out crazy good super sweet

Excel  -- another rich honey flavored sweet fig

Italian Honey, aka Latturula  -- has a soft sweet delicate honey flavor

Toni's Brown Italian  -- brown fig with a mild sweet honey flavor

Kadota  --  another super sweet honey fig

X Mission (zone 9, sensitive to freezing)

https://www.usefulplants.org/index.php/fruiting-plants/fruiting-shrubs/item/fig?category_id=68

These might be the fig grown by Quaker member -- Ellen's husband

HUNT https://mountainfigs.net/varieties/varieties-a-l/hunt/ *** looks good for southeast, propagated in Georgia http://www.walterreeves.com/food-gardening/rays-givans-fig-page-dark-fig-varieties/ says 1920s which seems too recent for heirloom? "Hard to propagate?"