Finding Aid to the Lynchburg Garden Club Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LYNCHBURG GARDEN CLUB PAPERS
The collection includes scrapbooks, newspaper clippings about activities, programs
for flower shows, and yearbooks for the Lynchburg Garden Club, Lynchburg, Virginia.
BOX 1

1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5
1-6
1-7
1-8
1-9

BOX 2

2-1 Keep Lynchburg Clean Honor Roll
2-2 Lynchburg Training School & Hospital (Project
1975)
2-3 Membership
2-4 Miller-Claytor Garden
2-5 Miscellaneous
2-6 Newspaper clippings
2-7 Photographs
2-8 Reports (Miscellaneous)
2-9 Scrapbook (1958-1960) (I)
2-10 Scrapbook (1958-1960) (II)

BOX 3

3-1 Yearbooks (1942-1947)
3-2 Yearbooks (1948-1975)
3-3 Yearbooks (1976-1998)

BOX 4

Annual Meeting (Lynchburg, 1937)
Awards
Constitution/Bylaws
Correspondence (1954)
Correspondence (1955)
Fiftieth Anniversary Register
Flower Shows/Programs
History
History of the Lynchburg Garden Club (Reel-to-reel tape - 45 min.)

Transparent Slides - Homes & Gardens

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[BOX 5] Scrapbook (1923-1943)

[BOX 8] Scrapbook (1976-1980)

[BOX 6] Scrapbook (1946-1959)

[BOX 9] Scrapbook (1980- 1982)

[BOX 7] Scrapbook (1972-1976)

[BOX 10] Scrapbook (1990-1992)

BOX 11

11-1
11-2
11-3
11-4
11-5

Minutes 1925-1931, 1934-1936
Minutes 1976-1978
Minutes 1980-1987
Minutes 1988-1990
Minutes 1990-1991

BOX 12

12-1
12-2
12-3
12-4
12-5

Minutes 1992-1993
Minutes 1994Miscellaneous photographs (undated)
Corporate papers – I
Corporate papers – II

BOX 13

Miscellaneous Records (1992-1996)

BOX 14

Miscellaneous Records (1996-2004)

BOX 15

Miscellaneous Records (1994-2004)

BOX 16

Miscellaneous Records (1995-2004)

BOX 17

Financial Records (1984-2004)

BOX 18

Flower Show Committee, Steeple Chase Committee

BOX 19

Yearbooks 1987-2006

BOX 20

Scrapbook “Historian’s Report” (1995-2004)

BOX 21

21-1
21-2
21-3
21-4
21-5
21-6

Riverside Park History
Riverside Park Signage
Miller Park
Miller-Claytor House
Miscellaneous
Photographs and slides (Riverside Park, Miller-Claytor House)

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LYNCHBURG GARDEN CLUB
The Lynchburg Garden Club was organized in 1922, with Josephine KINNIER as first
president. In 1923, the Club became a member of the Garden Club of Virginia. Through
the years, the Club has participated in beautification projects for the City of Lynchburg.
In 1926, the club planted sugar maples on Peakland Place. In the 1930s, members of the
Club planted hundreds of dogwoods from Boonsboro Road to Locke’s Mountain. In
1944, the Club was awarded the MASSIE Medal for "distinguished achievement in
gardening" in the preparation of the garden at the Miller-Claytor house, an historic
dwelling in Lynchburg. In 1954, the Lynchburg Garden Club joined with the Hillside
Garden Club in the promotion of Historic Garden Week, an annual event in the State of
Virginia.
Operation: Plant-A-Tree, a citywide recycling program, gained national recognition and
served as a prototype for similar efforts across the country. Since 1990, proceeds from
Plant-A-Tree have underwritten the costs of some 4,000 trees along the streets of
Lynchburg. Maintenance of the Charles Gillette Garden at the Miller-Claytor House in
Riverside Park has been an ongoing project since 1935. A stone patio laid with old stone
donated by the City was installed in the garden in 2012 for which the Club was awarded
the prestigious Common Wealth Award by the Garden Club of Virginia. The Club also
planned and planted the Gazebo Garden in Riverside Park and received a commendation
from Lynchburg City Council for its efforts in the Park.
[Lynchburg Garden Club Papers, Mss., MS1251, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA; Hillside
Garden Club Papers, MS1117, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA; The News & Advance – Garden
Day supplement, April 29, 2014, p. 34, 36.]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LYNCHBURG GARDEN CLUB PAPERS
The collection includes scrapbooks, newspaper clippings about activities, programs
for flower shows, and yearbooks for the Lynchburg Garden Club, Lynchburg, Virginia.

[Detailed finding guide available with the collection.]

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