Leesburg Garden Club collection, 1920-2010.

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Leesburg Garden Club collection, 1920-2010.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747017933

The collection contains records of the Leesburg Garden Club and includes directories, histories, minutes, committee reports, annual reports, scrapbooks, Garden Clubs of Virginia information, information on the Leesburg Garden Club's participation in Garden Week in Virginia, photographs, information on the club's part in the adoption of zoning and a sign ordinance in Loudoun County, membership lists and information on the club's 501c3 status and other miscellaneous material. Early records of the club were lost when the historian died. Consequently, most of the material begins with the1940s although there are a few earlier items including histories and some meeting/yearbooks. Minutes from 1995 and 2007 are also missing. The collection includes seven scrapbooks dating from 1948 through part of 2008. The material which would have been placed in a scrapbook during and after 2008 is currently being put into folders for better preservation. Much of the material, especially in the early books, is in very fragile condition. Material which had come loose from pages has been placed in containers with interleaved notations of where those missing pages may be found. Some Garden Week material and yearbooks may also be found in the scrapbooks. This is an open collection and additional material will be added at least every two years.

9 cubic ft.

Thomas Balch Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8121550

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Garden Club of Virginia

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Leesburg Garden Club (Leesburg, Va.)

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The Leesburg Garden Club was founded 9 Dec. 1915. Despite its name, members come from all sections of Loudoun County, Va. On 18 May 1926 the club became the fourteenth member of the Garden Club of Virginia (GCV) which had been founded in 1920 with the object of encouraging preservation, conservation, beautification, and restoration in the state. The GCV organized Garden Week in Virginia to earn money for this purpose and in 1929 the Leesburg Garden Club opened two historic houses and made "about...