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Gardening -- Georgia -- Societies, etc.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Expressway Beautification Association records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS654
Scope and Content

This collection contains reports, correspondence, and clippings that document the activities of the association. Included in the collection is a landscape planting report by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads that details the planting goals of the project. These materials illustrate the coordinated effort between the association, local landscape architects, and state and federal highway departments.

Dates: 1949-1956, undated

Green Thumb Garden Club records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS665
Scope and Content

This collection includes material that documents the civic and social activities of the club. Minutes, clippings, and yearbooks provide details on the club's meetings, flower shows, and civic work. Several scrapbooks are dedicated to individual civic projects including the Tullie Smith House field crops garden and the grounds of the Fairhaven School. Garden plans for the school drawn by landscape architect Eugene Martini are also part of the collection.

Dates: 1953-1987, undated