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Loose materials were removed from scrapbooks or manila envelopes and placed in file folders. Envelopes of photographs were removed to VC 0040.  Manuscript relocation sheets have been inserted in scrapbooks from which materials and photographs were removed.  Materials from 1996, 1997, and 2001 were not kept in scrapbooks but in brown accordion files from which they were removed to the files indicated.  Materials for 1995 and 1998-2002 were kept in manila envelopes from which they were removed to the files indicated.  In several instances miscellaneous materials were in manila envelopes inserted in scrapbooks.  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Laughlin (1876-1950), Mrs. John (Frances P.) Gibson(1882-1964), Mrs. J.R.H. (Cora L.) Alexander (1884-1972), and Mrs. William (Norita F.) Martin (1876-1952).  Early in 1916 eight additional women were invited to join, and by the end of 1917 there was a total of 22 members.  By 2010 membership was limited to 40 active members, 10 associate members (members who for reasons acceptable to the Executive Board can no longer be active but who are entitled to the privileges of the club including voting), one non-resident member and such honorary members as the club and the Executive Board vote to include.  Honorary members are people who have benefitted the club to a considerable extent.  For example, the husband of a member was made an honorary member because of his work growing and hybridizing lilies which the club entered in many shows and with which it won many ribbons.","The club began as a group who met to read aloud from the works of Charles Dickens (1812-1870).  One member mentioned hearing of something called a \"garden club\" and so Dickens was abandoned in favor of plants.  Although named the Leesburg Garden Club, members came from all sections of Loudoun County and in the beginning many of them lived on farms as well as in the Town of Leesburg.  Almost all had vegetable gardens, so there was initially as much emphasis on vegetables as on flowers.","On 18 May, 1926 the Leesburg Garden Club became the 14th 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 $16.\"  Proceeds have increased tremendously and by 2010 the club's gross receipts surpassed $10,000 for Garden Week, which takes place at the end of April each year.","From the beginning the club had a number of civic projects as well as the members' own interests in gardening.  Starting in 1917 members supplied fresh vegetables to the local hospital from their own gardens and from a garden which they established on the hospital grounds.  They canned produce to provide vegetables for the staff and patients in winter in the days before freezers.  This program continued until the early 1940s when the club switched its attention to landscaping at the hospital. Members also planted flowers to cheer up patients.  Another early project was to help elementary school children plant flowers and teach them about beautification.  This project expanded to become the Highway Development Committee and eventually the Beautification Committee which promotes the aesthetic improvement of Loudoun County and its towns and highways.","The club's concern with county beautification led it to work actively in opposition to the use of billboards.  One member, Vinton Liddell Pickens (1900-1993), particularly urged the use of zoning to prevent the construction of billboards.  She regularly attended meetings of the Board of Supervisors until the board agreed to appoint a Planning Commission to write a zoning ordinance. Vinton Pickens was the commission's first and longest serving chairman.  Through the work of the Leesburg Garden Club, in 1942 Loudoun County became the first rural county in the country to have a zoning ordinance.","In 1985 the club became embroiled in a conflict with Lyndon LaRouche (1922 - ), an extremist political figure.  LaRouche moved his headquarters to Loudoun County, and one of his organizations, Campaign Publications, Inc., filed for a variance to change the use of its agriculturally zoned property.  The Leesburg Garden Club joined other concerned groups and citizens to protest the request.  The Board of Zoning Appeals denied the request in February of 1986, and LaRouche and his supporters targeted those who opposed the variance with media attacks.  Leesburg Garden Club members were described by LaRouche in an interview as \"these clacking busybodies in this Soviet jellyfish front sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda making nuisances of themselves.\"","The Leesburg Garden Club became a non-profit 501c3 organization in 1999 and has continued its civic work in order to maintain that status.  The club has worked with Oatlands Plantation and Dodona Manor in preserving and maintaining these historic properties, which are open to the public.  Each year it sends a child to Nature Camp where he or she learns the value and interest of nature conservation.  A college scholarship is awarded each year to a high school student who will be studying in a horticulture related field.  A long established custom has been for the members to meet in December to create wreaths and decorative greens to hang on Leesburg's unique swinging courthouse yard gates and the doors of Thomas Balch Library, the town's history and genealogy library.  Other projects undertaken in the past have included encouraging homeowners to beautify their yards by giving them daffodil bulbs, planting dogwood trees in public spaces, and persuading the town of Leesburg to place hanging baskets of flowers on utility poles. The club monitors the county's sign ordinance and works with the county when amendments are necessary; this has happened only twice in the 70 years since it was adopted as part of the zoning ordinance.","The club also is active in gardening activities such as horticulture, flower arranging and flower shows. It takes part in the major GCV shows as well as sponsoring them when its turn comes in the GCV rotation.  Members have won statewide awards for their work in conservation, preservation and beautification including, the GCV Massie Medal four times for saving the Broad Run bridge, introducing zoning to the county, for horticultural achievement and for donating trees for the Douglass Community Center \"Park for all Ages.\"  The club won the GCV Common Wealth Award for that park, and a member won the GCV deLacy Grey Memorial Medal for her work to protect the natural resources of the commonwealth.  10 members have won the GCV Horticultural Award of Merit.","The collection contains records of the Leesburg Garden Club and includes directories, histories, minutes, committee reports, annual reports, scrapbooks, GCV 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.  This is an open collection and additional material will be added at least every two years.","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.","Files on Historic Garden Week note many addresses and locations of houses which may be compared with the Lewis/Edwards Architectural Surveys of Loudoun County, 1971-1983 (M 022), Architectural Surveys of Leesburg, 1971-2001(M 016), and Loudoun County Architectural Surveys, Supplement, 2003 (M 011) for more information on many of the buildings.","The collection contains records of the Leesburg Garden Club and includes directories, histories, minutes, committee reports, annual reports, scrapbooks, GCV 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.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Leesburg Garden Club Collection\n1920-2013"],"collection_ssim":["Leesburg Garden Club Collection\n1920-2013"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["M 044"],"unitid_tesim":["M 044"],"repository_ssm":["Thomas Balch Library"],"repository_ssim":["Thomas Balch Library"],"creator_ssm":["Leesburg Garden Club, Loudoun County, VA"],"creator_ssim":["Leesburg Garden Club, Loudoun County, VA"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Leesburg Garden Club, Loudoun County, VA."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBox folder\n\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Box folder"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Leesburg Garden Club was founded 9 December 1915 by four women, Mrs. Page (Bessie H.M.) 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For example, the husband of a member was made an honorary member because of his work growing and hybridizing lilies which the club entered in many shows and with which it won many ribbons.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe club began as a group who met to read aloud from the works of Charles Dickens (1812-1870).  One member mentioned hearing of something called a \"garden club\" and so Dickens was abandoned in favor of plants.  Although named the Leesburg Garden Club, members came from all sections of Loudoun County and in the beginning many of them lived on farms as well as in the Town of Leesburg.  Almost all had vegetable gardens, so there was initially as much emphasis on vegetables as on flowers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eOn 18 May, 1926 the Leesburg Garden Club became the 14th 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 $16.\"  Proceeds have increased tremendously and by 2010 the club's gross receipts surpassed $10,000 for Garden Week, which takes place at the end of April each year.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFrom the beginning the club had a number of civic projects as well as the members' own interests in gardening.  Starting in 1917 members supplied fresh vegetables to the local hospital from their own gardens and from a garden which they established on the hospital grounds.  They canned produce to provide vegetables for the staff and patients in winter in the days before freezers.  This program continued until the early 1940s when the club switched its attention to landscaping at the hospital. Members also planted flowers to cheer up patients.  Another early project was to help elementary school children plant flowers and teach them about beautification.  This project expanded to become the Highway Development Committee and eventually the Beautification Committee which promotes the aesthetic improvement of Loudoun County and its towns and highways.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe club's concern with county beautification led it to work actively in opposition to the use of billboards.  One member, Vinton Liddell Pickens (1900-1993), particularly urged the use of zoning to prevent the construction of billboards.  She regularly attended meetings of the Board of Supervisors until the board agreed to appoint a Planning Commission to write a zoning ordinance. Vinton Pickens was the commission's first and longest serving chairman.  Through the work of the Leesburg Garden Club, in 1942 Loudoun County became the first rural county in the country to have a zoning ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1985 the club became embroiled in a conflict with Lyndon LaRouche (1922 - ), an extremist political figure.  LaRouche moved his headquarters to Loudoun County, and one of his organizations, Campaign Publications, Inc., filed for a variance to change the use of its agriculturally zoned property.  The Leesburg Garden Club joined other concerned groups and citizens to protest the request.  The Board of Zoning Appeals denied the request in February of 1986, and LaRouche and his supporters targeted those who opposed the variance with media attacks.  Leesburg Garden Club members were described by LaRouche in an interview as \"these clacking busybodies in this Soviet jellyfish front sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda making nuisances of themselves.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe Leesburg Garden Club became a non-profit 501c3 organization in 1999 and has continued its civic work in order to maintain that status.  The club has worked with Oatlands Plantation and Dodona Manor in preserving and maintaining these historic properties, which are open to the public.  Each year it sends a child to Nature Camp where he or she learns the value and interest of nature conservation.  A college scholarship is awarded each year to a high school student who will be studying in a horticulture related field.  A long established custom has been for the members to meet in December to create wreaths and decorative greens to hang on Leesburg's unique swinging courthouse yard gates and the doors of Thomas Balch Library, the town's history and genealogy library.  Other projects undertaken in the past have included encouraging homeowners to beautify their yards by giving them daffodil bulbs, planting dogwood trees in public spaces, and persuading the town of Leesburg to place hanging baskets of flowers on utility poles. The club monitors the county's sign ordinance and works with the county when amendments are necessary; this has happened only twice in the 70 years since it was adopted as part of the zoning ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe club also is active in gardening activities such as horticulture, flower arranging and flower shows. It takes part in the major GCV shows as well as sponsoring them when its turn comes in the GCV rotation.  Members have won statewide awards for their work in conservation, preservation and beautification including, the GCV Massie Medal four times for saving the Broad Run bridge, introducing zoning to the county, for horticultural achievement and for donating trees for the Douglass Community Center \"Park for all Ages.\"  The club won the GCV Common Wealth Award for that park, and a member won the GCV deLacy Grey Memorial Medal for her work to protect the natural resources of the commonwealth.  10 members have won the GCV Horticultural Award of Merit.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["The Leesburg Garden Club was founded 9 December 1915 by four women, Mrs. Page (Bessie H.M.) Laughlin (1876-1950), Mrs. John (Frances P.) Gibson(1882-1964), Mrs. J.R.H. (Cora L.) Alexander (1884-1972), and Mrs. William (Norita F.) Martin (1876-1952).  Early in 1916 eight additional women were invited to join, and by the end of 1917 there was a total of 22 members.  By 2010 membership was limited to 40 active members, 10 associate members (members who for reasons acceptable to the Executive Board can no longer be active but who are entitled to the privileges of the club including voting), one non-resident member and such honorary members as the club and the Executive Board vote to include.  Honorary members are people who have benefitted the club to a considerable extent.  For example, the husband of a member was made an honorary member because of his work growing and hybridizing lilies which the club entered in many shows and with which it won many ribbons.","The club began as a group who met to read aloud from the works of Charles Dickens (1812-1870).  One member mentioned hearing of something called a \"garden club\" and so Dickens was abandoned in favor of plants.  Although named the Leesburg Garden Club, members came from all sections of Loudoun County and in the beginning many of them lived on farms as well as in the Town of Leesburg.  Almost all had vegetable gardens, so there was initially as much emphasis on vegetables as on flowers.","On 18 May, 1926 the Leesburg Garden Club became the 14th 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 $16.\"  Proceeds have increased tremendously and by 2010 the club's gross receipts surpassed $10,000 for Garden Week, which takes place at the end of April each year.","From the beginning the club had a number of civic projects as well as the members' own interests in gardening.  Starting in 1917 members supplied fresh vegetables to the local hospital from their own gardens and from a garden which they established on the hospital grounds.  They canned produce to provide vegetables for the staff and patients in winter in the days before freezers.  This program continued until the early 1940s when the club switched its attention to landscaping at the hospital. Members also planted flowers to cheer up patients.  Another early project was to help elementary school children plant flowers and teach them about beautification.  This project expanded to become the Highway Development Committee and eventually the Beautification Committee which promotes the aesthetic improvement of Loudoun County and its towns and highways.","The club's concern with county beautification led it to work actively in opposition to the use of billboards.  One member, Vinton Liddell Pickens (1900-1993), particularly urged the use of zoning to prevent the construction of billboards.  She regularly attended meetings of the Board of Supervisors until the board agreed to appoint a Planning Commission to write a zoning ordinance. Vinton Pickens was the commission's first and longest serving chairman.  Through the work of the Leesburg Garden Club, in 1942 Loudoun County became the first rural county in the country to have a zoning ordinance.","In 1985 the club became embroiled in a conflict with Lyndon LaRouche (1922 - ), an extremist political figure.  LaRouche moved his headquarters to Loudoun County, and one of his organizations, Campaign Publications, Inc., filed for a variance to change the use of its agriculturally zoned property.  The Leesburg Garden Club joined other concerned groups and citizens to protest the request.  The Board of Zoning Appeals denied the request in February of 1986, and LaRouche and his supporters targeted those who opposed the variance with media attacks.  Leesburg Garden Club members were described by LaRouche in an interview as \"these clacking busybodies in this Soviet jellyfish front sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda making nuisances of themselves.\"","The Leesburg Garden Club became a non-profit 501c3 organization in 1999 and has continued its civic work in order to maintain that status.  The club has worked with Oatlands Plantation and Dodona Manor in preserving and maintaining these historic properties, which are open to the public.  Each year it sends a child to Nature Camp where he or she learns the value and interest of nature conservation.  A college scholarship is awarded each year to a high school student who will be studying in a horticulture related field.  A long established custom has been for the members to meet in December to create wreaths and decorative greens to hang on Leesburg's unique swinging courthouse yard gates and the doors of Thomas Balch Library, the town's history and genealogy library.  Other projects undertaken in the past have included encouraging homeowners to beautify their yards by giving them daffodil bulbs, planting dogwood trees in public spaces, and persuading the town of Leesburg to place hanging baskets of flowers on utility poles. The club monitors the county's sign ordinance and works with the county when amendments are necessary; this has happened only twice in the 70 years since it was adopted as part of the zoning ordinance.","The club also is active in gardening activities such as horticulture, flower arranging and flower shows. It takes part in the major GCV shows as well as sponsoring them when its turn comes in the GCV rotation.  Members have won statewide awards for their work in conservation, preservation and beautification including, the GCV Massie Medal four times for saving the Broad Run bridge, introducing zoning to the county, for horticultural achievement and for donating trees for the Douglass Community Center \"Park for all Ages.\"  The club won the GCV Common Wealth Award for that park, and a member won the GCV deLacy Grey Memorial Medal for her work to protect the natural resources of the commonwealth.  10 members have won the GCV Horticultural Award of Merit."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains records of the Leesburg Garden Club and includes directories, histories, minutes, committee reports, annual reports, scrapbooks, GCV 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. \n\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eEarly 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.  This is an open collection and additional material will be added at least every two years.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFiles on Historic Garden Week note many addresses and locations of houses which may be compared with the Lewis/Edwards Architectural Surveys of Loudoun County, 1971-1983 (M 022), Architectural Surveys of Leesburg, 1971-2001(M 016), and Loudoun County Architectural Surveys, Supplement, 2003 (M 011) for more information on many of the buildings.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains records of the Leesburg Garden Club and includes directories, histories, minutes, committee reports, annual reports, scrapbooks, GCV 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.  This is an open collection and additional material will be added at least every two years.","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.","Files on Historic Garden Week note many addresses and locations of houses which may be compared with the Lewis/Edwards Architectural Surveys of Loudoun County, 1971-1983 (M 022), Architectural Surveys of Leesburg, 1971-2001(M 016), and Loudoun County Architectural Surveys, Supplement, 2003 (M 011) for more information on many of the buildings."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection contains records of the Leesburg Garden Club and includes directories, histories, minutes, committee reports, annual reports, scrapbooks, GCV 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. \n\u003c/abstract\u003e\n      "],"abstract_tesim":["The collection contains records of the Leesburg Garden Club and includes directories, histories, minutes, committee reports, annual reports, scrapbooks, GCV 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."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":639,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:22:56.531Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viletbl_viletbl00173_c02"}},{"id":"viletbl_viletbl00190_c02","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"box 2, [title not supplied]","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viletbl_viletbl00190_c02#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00190_c02","ref_ssm":["viletbl_viletbl00190_c02"],"id":"viletbl_viletbl00190_c02","ead_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00190","_root_":"viletbl_viletbl00190","_nest_parent_":"viletbl_viletbl00190","parent_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00190","parent_ssim":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viletbl_viletbl00190"],"title_filing_ssi":"box 2, [title not supplied]","title_ssm":["box 2, [title not supplied]"],"title_tesim":["box 2, [title not supplied]"],"normalized_title_ssm":["box 2, [title not supplied]"],"text":["box 2, [title not supplied]","The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970","box 2"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970"],"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"component_level_isim":[1],"sort_isi":14,"repository_ssim":["Thomas Balch Library"],"collection_ssim":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970"],"containers_ssim":["box 2"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":16,"_nest_path_":"/components#1","timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:22:56.531Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viletbl_viletbl00190","ead_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00190","_root_":"viletbl_viletbl00190","_nest_parent_":"viletbl_viletbl00190","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/tbl/viletbl00190.xml","title_ssm":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970"],"title_tesim":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970"],"normalized_title_ssm":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970"],"text":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970","M 055","Nanon Lucile Carr was a descendant of the Carr family of Virginia.  She was born in Osborn, Missouri on 8 June 1897, and was the eldest of three daughters of John Christopher Carr (1876-1944) and Elizabeth Agnes Metcalfe (1878-1962).","She graduated from Cameron Missouri High School in 1914, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Missouri in 1918.  Ms. Carr worked as a teacher in the Kansas City Public School System from 1923 until her retirement.  In 1945, she was awarded a Master of Arts in the Teaching of English Language and Literature from the University of Kansas City.","She had an active interest in genealogy and spent many years researching the Carr and related families.  A few of the many family names she researched are:   Ball, Brown, Carr, Chinn, Duncan, Fulkerson, Kerr, Livingston, Metcalfe, Musick, Patton, Perkins, Puller, Ridgeway, Strode, Strode, and Winn.  Much of the collection consists of correspondence with distant cousins, pedigree charts, and newspaper clippings on the various branches of her family.","Ms. Carr died in San Diego, California, in March 1978.  It is unclear whether she left Kansas City upon her retirement or if she moved to California to be near her younger sister, Mary Margaret (Carr) Pochodowicz (1913-1999) who lived in the San Diego area.","This collection contains of photocopies of research completed by Nanon Carr.  It consists mostly of Carr family ancestry as well as collateral lines and is arranged by family name.  Also included is correspondence from relatives and friends. Book 1 includes a personal name index. Also available is an Access database that indexes the whole collection by personal name. It is currently available only at the Reference Desk. Please consult library staff for use.","This collection contains of photocopies of research completed by Nanon Carr.  It consists mostly of Carr family ancestry as well as collateral lines and is arranged by family name.  Also included is correspondence from relatives and friends. Book 1 includes a personal name index. Also available is an Access database that indexes the whole collection by personal name. It is currently available only at the Reference Desk. Please consult library staff for use.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970"],"collection_ssim":["The Nanon Carr Collection\n1940-1970"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["M 055"],"unitid_tesim":["M 055"],"repository_ssm":["Thomas Balch Library"],"repository_ssim":["Thomas Balch Library"],"creator_ssm":["Nanon Carr"],"creator_ssim":["Nanon Carr"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNanon Lucile Carr was a descendant of the Carr family of Virginia.  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Ms. Carr worked as a teacher in the Kansas City Public School System from 1923 until her retirement.  In 1945, she was awarded a Master of Arts in the Teaching of English Language and Literature from the University of Kansas City.","She had an active interest in genealogy and spent many years researching the Carr and related families.  A few of the many family names she researched are:   Ball, Brown, Carr, Chinn, Duncan, Fulkerson, Kerr, Livingston, Metcalfe, Musick, Patton, Perkins, Puller, Ridgeway, Strode, Strode, and Winn.  Much of the collection consists of correspondence with distant cousins, pedigree charts, and newspaper clippings on the various branches of her family.","Ms. Carr died in San Diego, California, in March 1978.  It is unclear whether she left Kansas City upon her retirement or if she moved to California to be near her younger sister, Mary Margaret (Carr) Pochodowicz (1913-1999) who lived in the San Diego area."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection contains of photocopies of research completed by Nanon Carr.  It consists mostly of Carr family ancestry as well as collateral lines and is arranged by family name.  Also included is correspondence from relatives and friends. Book 1 includes a personal name index. Also available is an Access database that indexes the whole collection by personal name. It is currently available only at the Reference Desk. Please consult library staff for use.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains of photocopies of research completed by Nanon Carr.  It consists mostly of Carr family ancestry as well as collateral lines and is arranged by family name.  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It consists mostly of Carr family ancestry as well as collateral lines and is arranged by family name.  Also included is correspondence from relatives and friends. Book 1 includes a personal name index. Also available is an Access database that indexes the whole collection by personal name. It is currently available only at the Reference Desk. 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Trees were being cut down in Leesburg, the Army Corps of Engineers planned to build a dam on the Potomac River at Seneca that would flood much of northern Loudoun County, and a developer wanted to build a regional shopping center at the intersection of Routes 7 and 28. By 14 February 1974 the women, joined by ten other concerned citizens, organized the Preservation Society of Loudoun County \"to preserve the natural and cultural heritage of Loudoun County.\" They were soon joined by others and began their activity with a trip to Charleston, South Carolina.","One of the society's first projects was to successfully lobby Loudoun County for the preservation of a row of houses on Edwards Ferry Road immediately east of the jail. It also worked to save the Valley Bank building, and gave contributions to such preservation projects as the Aldie Mill restoration and restoration of the Purcellville railroad station. In the1980s it monitored the possible mining of uranium in Virginia. It held workshops to educate Loudoun's citizens on preservation and worked for the preservation of wetlands and protection of mountainsides. The society tracked legislation on the local and state levels as it pertained to land use policy and preservation, including revisions to zoning ordinances of both Loudoun County and the Town of Leesburg. It monitored development in Loudoun County, particularly major land use changes such as the building of Ashburn Village and the development of the Shelburne Glebe property.","In 1980 the society began a major project of presenting biannual preservation awards to encourage preservation and restoration by individuals and businesses. The society made the awards at its annual membership drive and party, held on a date near Valentine's Day, and at a summer gala. Both of these events were generally held in historic homes.","Members made an annual trip to Richmond where they met with and made their wishes known to legislators. 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Several generations later, James Edward Copeland (1845-1937) was born in Hillsborough, Loudoun County, Virginia.  Copeland served as a private in the 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion, Company C for which service he and his wife, Fannie V. Copeland (1859-1950), received Confederate pensions. Although an outspoken critic of public schools Copeland started his career as a teacher in the first Hillsboro public School in 1870. He received an MD from Washington University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland in 1876 and commenced his medical practice in Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginia where he met and married in 1881, his wife Fannie V. Copeland. Copeland practiced medicine from 1877 to 1925 when a kick in the elbow from a horse ended his career.  He had two children, Edward Virgil Copeland (1882- 1918), also a physician who joined his father in his practice until his untimely death from influenza, and Maria A. Copeland (1886-1969) a teacher in Round Hill.  The family is buried in the Hillsboro Cemetery.","J. E. Copeland was an enthusiastic recorder of historical events and was known as the historian of Hillsboro. A large collection of scrapbooks, still held by the family, attest to this lifelong interest in recording events.","This collection contains photocopies of fourteen of numerous scrapbooks created throughout his life by James E. Copeland.  Topics vary from drama, literature and moral issues to general history, the American Civil War and historical figures. There is some duplication of articles among the scrapbooks held by Thomas Balch Library and not all photocopies are complete. Partial indexes for each volume are included. The original scrapbooks, held by the family, are in fragile condition; best copies were made at the time the collection materials were donated.","This collection contains photocopies of fourteen of numerous scrapbooks created throughout his life by James E. Copeland.  Topics vary from drama, literature and moral issues to general history, the American Civil War and historical figures. There is some duplication of articles among the scrapbooks held by Thomas Balch Library and not all photocopies are complete. Partial indexes for each volume are included. The original scrapbooks, held by the family, are in fragile condition; best copies were made at the time the collection materials were donated.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["James E. Copeland Scrapbooks\n1892-1925; nd"],"collection_ssim":["James E. Copeland Scrapbooks\n1892-1925; nd"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["M 070"],"unitid_tesim":["M 070"],"repository_ssm":["Thomas Balch Library"],"repository_ssim":["Thomas Balch Library"],"creator_ssm":["James E. Copeland family"],"creator_ssim":["James E. Copeland family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["James E. 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He received an MD from Washington University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland in 1876 and commenced his medical practice in Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginia where he met and married in 1881, his wife Fannie V. Copeland. Copeland practiced medicine from 1877 to 1925 when a kick in the elbow from a horse ended his career.  He had two children, Edward Virgil Copeland (1882- 1918), also a physician who joined his father in his practice until his untimely death from influenza, and Maria A. Copeland (1886-1969) a teacher in Round Hill.  The family is buried in the Hillsboro Cemetery. \n\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJ. E. Copeland was an enthusiastic recorder of historical events and was known as the historian of Hillsboro. 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Topics vary from drama, literature and moral issues to general history, the American Civil War and historical figures. There is some duplication of articles among the scrapbooks held by Thomas Balch Library and not all photocopies are complete. Partial indexes for each volume are included. 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The building subsequently served as a tenant house and, eventually, a gift shop in the 1960s before being vacant for many years. The house, and the tract of land on which it stood, changed hands many times. By the 1960s, the house and land belonged to the Hamblet family. They donated the house to Loudoun County in 1968 to be used as a tourist information center, but the Board of Supervisors returned it in 1971 because of concerns about cost and transportation.","On 28 March 1996, William Randall Hamblet, Susan Swink Hamblet, his wife, Susan Harper Hamblet, and Matthew Lewis Hamblet signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County. The memorandum conveyed a parcel containing the Stone House to the County of Loudoun. The gift stipulated that the building and its immediate surroundings be used as a \"park housing a museum and/or tourist information center.\" The building was to be moved to another parcel, also owned by the donors, at no expense to the donors and this was accomplished.","Joan Rokus, a former Loudoun County supervisor, became interested in preserving the building when the development of the Harper Park subdivision threatened the building's survival. She helped found Friends of the Stone House at Harper Park in 1996. In 1998, the Virginia State Corporation Commission issued a charter and the group adopted bylaws. The stated purpose of the organization was to support the reconstruction, occupancy, maintenance and preservation of the historic structure known as the Stone House at Harper Park. The organization achieved 501c3 status in May of 2004 which enabled it to receive tax exempt donations.","Rokus was the guiding force and first president of the board of Friends of the Stone House at Harper Park. The board worked closely with the county through the staff of the Department of Parks and Recreation. Plans for the restoration of the Stone House were drawn by John Milner Associates, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia in 2001. Friends of the Stone House at Harper Park sought funding from various organizations, and in 2004 it was awarded $100,000 in federal funding through the Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-First Century. There were also smaller grants from other organizations such as the Loudoun Restoration and Preservation Society and from businesses and individuals.","Despite these grants the board of the Friends of the Stone House realized that the funds were not going to be sufficient to complete the restoration work and make the house usable for the purpose designated in the deed of gift by the date set by the donors.  The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors was also becoming concerned about the mounting costs.  After considerable correspondence with the donors it was decided to give the property back to them. The remaining money was given to several historical and preservation societies in the county.","The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on November 13, 2007 to consider conveying the property to the donors. A letter in box 1, folder 13 indicates that the property was conveyed back to the family on that date. However, the final disbursement of the organization's funds did not take place until 2009 as noted in the agenda for a meeting of the \"Friends, Advisors, and guests.\" The date of this meeting was not given but the agenda was sent, apparently by e-mail, on April 19, 2009.","The collection consists of three boxes containing material saved by Joan Rokus concerning Friends of the Stone House at Harper Park. They are filed alphabetically by folder titles Rokus used. Some records such as minutes, committee reports, staff reports, correspondence, etc. are incomplete.","The property was given to the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County by deed of subdivision and of gift on 28 March 1996 by William Randall Hamblet and Susan Swink Hamblet, his wife; Susan Harper Hamblet; and Matthew Lewis Hamblet, but there is no written record of the founding of Friends of the Stone House. The earliest document noting the existence of Friends of the Stone House is a 1999 list of nine members with a handwritten notation that it does not include the board of directors or the advisory board members. This indicates that the group was already organized even though there were few members. There follow lists of the boards for the years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.","The collection includes architectural plans drawn by John Milner Associates, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia with that firm's estimated costs for the proposed work. There is a plat of the property dated August 10, 2001. That survey was done by Patton Harris Rust Associates of Leesburg, Virginia.  There are also photographs of Lafayette Day on September 2, 2000, presentation of a painting of the building to the Harper Park Middle School, and of a presentation made at the Loudoun campus of George Washington University. There are also miscellaneous photographs of the building under construction and of the finished exterior.","The collection consists of three boxes containing material saved by Joan Rokus concerning Friends of the Stone House at Harper Park. They are filed alphabetically by folder titles Rokus used. Some records such as minutes, committee reports, staff reports, correspondence, etc. are incomplete. The collection includes architectural plans drawn by John Milner Associates, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia with that firm's estimated costs for the proposed work. There is a plat of the property dated August 10, 2001. That survey was done by Patton Harris Rust Associates of Leesburg, Virginia.  There are also photographs of Lafayette Day on September 2, 2000, presentation of a painting of the building to the Harper Park Middle School, and of a presentation made at the Loudoun campus of George Washington University. 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There were also smaller grants from other organizations such as the Loudoun Restoration and Preservation Society and from businesses and individuals.","Despite these grants the board of the Friends of the Stone House realized that the funds were not going to be sufficient to complete the restoration work and make the house usable for the purpose designated in the deed of gift by the date set by the donors.  The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors was also becoming concerned about the mounting costs.  After considerable correspondence with the donors it was decided to give the property back to them. The remaining money was given to several historical and preservation societies in the county.","The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on November 13, 2007 to consider conveying the property to the donors. A letter in box 1, folder 13 indicates that the property was conveyed back to the family on that date. 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She kept his letters to her from 1937 to 1939, though there is no explanation of why they did not marry. Nancy Rogers died 27 January 2000 in Leesburg and is buried in Union Cemetery in Leesburg.","The manuscript materials consist of personal and business correspondence of Nancy Graham Rogers, including letters from her fiance, Albert C. Johnson. There are also letters Rogers inherited from her mother, Anna, including one from her father to her grandmother asking for Anna's hand in marriage. There are business receipts, correspondence, tax information, and material regarding the estates of relatives for whom Rogers served as executor, including Anne Snowden Wildman Dyer and Christine Wildman. The collection also includes scrapbooks, Nancy's mother's wedding book, and a small diary Rogers kept from 1932 to 1935. An account book marked \"Turkeys and Chickens 1915\" was used as a scrapbook, probably by Anna Rogers, and contains clippings and expenses. 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