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Chamberlin and 13 other men founded the club \"to consider the propriety of organizing themselves into a body for the purpose of mutual improvement.\"  They saw economic benefit to pooling their resources.  Improving transportation in the area was one of the club's first orders of business.  Founders and early members include: Robert R. Walker (1851-1931), J.E. Walker (ca. 1818-n.d.), Elisha H. Walker (1844-n.d.), James Janney (1804-1878), Lewis Steer (n.d.), O.J. Pierpont (ca. 1854-n.d.), Cornelius Shawen (n.d.-1820) - owner of C. Shawen and Co., a general store in Waterford - Isaac C. Hoge (1844-1893), David Mansfield (1802-1871), Samuel Hackney (n.d.), Aaron Hackney (n.d.), Amasa Hough (1831-1905), C.S. Hollingsworth (n.d.), Thomas Phillips (n.d.), R.L.J. White (n.d.), William H. 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Inserted materials include copies of minutes, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous notes and receipts. Following Book 9 is a partial transcription of the volume done by researcher Louisa Hutchison in 2012.","The rest of the collection contains correspondence, much of which is between members, to government officials, and to university professors about agricultural sciences.  There are also a few essays and speeches, newspaper clippings, magazine articles pertaining to agriculture, grain and cattle price-reports, rainfall and weather tabulations, and other information about the club itself and agriculture in general.","The collection contains 12 volumes of minutes from 1868 to 1943 (volume 8, 1907-1914, is missing) and unbound minutes from 1944-1983.  Minutes are incomplete.  Inserted materials include copies of minutes, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous notes and receipts. 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Farmers in Waterford, VA held their first meeting at \"Clifton,\" the home of Col. Simon Elliot Chamberlin (1834-1908) to assign committees and draft by-laws.  Chamberlin and 13 other men founded the club \"to consider the propriety of organizing themselves into a body for the purpose of mutual improvement.\"  They saw economic benefit to pooling their resources.  Improving transportation in the area was one of the club's first orders of business.  Founders and early members include: Robert R. Walker (1851-1931), J.E. Walker (ca. 1818-n.d.), Elisha H. Walker (1844-n.d.), James Janney (1804-1878), Lewis Steer (n.d.), O.J. Pierpont (ca. 1854-n.d.), Cornelius Shawen (n.d.-1820) - owner of C. Shawen and Co., a general store in Waterford - Isaac C. Hoge (1844-1893), David Mansfield (1802-1871), Samuel Hackney (n.d.), Aaron Hackney (n.d.), Amasa Hough (1831-1905), C.S. Hollingsworth (n.d.), Thomas Phillips (n.d.), R.L.J. White (n.d.), William H. 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Byrd, Sr. (1887-1966) for assistance when gasoline rationing crippled farmers, keeping them from running equipment.  Other issues such as real estate became more complex throughout the 20th century as development rapidly accelerated.","The club's membership in the 20th century reflected some of these issues with which farmers dealt - many of the members as large estate owners were involved in real estate.  Bankers, military officers, and prominent businessmen of Loudoun County also filled the club's ranks.  Influential members toward the middle of the century included Allen B. McDaniel (1879-1965), Hayden B. Harris (1885-n.d.), J. Churchill Newcomb (1899-1962), and General William C. Crane (1891-1978).   The club is still active."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains 12 volumes of minutes from 1868 to 1943 (volume 8, 1907-1914, is missing) and unbound minutes from 1944-1983.  Minutes are incomplete. 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George Junkin (1790-1868), founder and President of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and a President of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia.  His aunt, Rev. William Finney Junkin's sister, Elinor (1825-1854), was the first wife of Thomas \"Stonewall\" Jackson (1824-1863).","Junkin attended Kenyon College and Columbia University, where he received a law degree in 1887.  He practiced law in New York City until 1898.  He was appointed General Attorney of the Atchison, Topeka \u0026 Santa Fe Railroad in 1899.  He resided in Chicago and New York City, but retained close ties with Lexington and Rockbridge County.   His sister, Elinor Jackson Junkin Cox Latane (1867-1939), purchased \"Mulberry Hill\" in 1903 where she lived with their mother.  The property was originally built by Junkin's ancestors and changed hands a number of times in the 19th century.  The house still stands on the outskirts of Lexington.","Junkin first showed interest in genealogy in 1878 when he wrote to his mother's cousin, William Winston Fontaine (1834-1917), seeking information about the family.  By the early 20th century he was corresponding regularly and at length with relatives regarding family history.  He completed a large genealogy chart in 1908, and continued pursuing personal information on the families represented on the chart as well as more distant connections.  He married Emily Hutchison Crane (ca. 1866-n.d.) in Paris, France in 1913. On 15 September 1919 Junkin was appointed a member of the Board of Contract Adjustment with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Army.  The board was created as a court of final appeals in adjusting claims against the U.S. Government arising after the end of World War I.  Junkin lived in Washington, D.C. from 1920 until his death on 6 May 1928.","Francis T.A. Junkin also had connections to the Rust family in Loudoun County, Virginia.  His niece, Lily Lawrence Rust Fendall (1880-1973), was the granddaughter of Armistead Thomson Mason Rust (1820-1887) of \"Rockland\" Leesburg, Virginia and his first wife, Eliza Southgate Lawrence (1828-1958).  Junkin's sister, Elinor, was first married to Lewis Berkeley Cox (1856-1901) of \"Stoke\" in Aldie, Virginia.  Their son, William Junkin Cox (1896-1989), was married twice, first to Ida Lee Edwards (1898-1950) and second to Jane Rust (1918-1977).  Both women were granddaughters of Armistead Rust and his second wife, Ida Lee (1840-1921).  William Junkin Cox's descendants still live in Leesburg.","The collection includes 9 boxes, with a total of 188 folders covering family information primarily of the Junkin, Anderson and Aylett families.  Numerous other relations and connections appear in the collection including Alexander, Dandridge, Henry, Spotswood, West, Moore, Macon, Reid, and Glasgow among others. Oversized materials includes a letter, genealogy research, and six 19th century newspapers.  There is also a rolled family chart, with a photocopy for research use.","The collection contains primarily letters to and from Francis T.A. Junkin containing genealogical information, but also a considerable amount of personal family information and letters from other family members, the oldest dated 1798. There are also extracts of wills, deeds and tomb inscriptions dating as far back as 1517.  Box 6 contains miscellaneous information unrelated to genealogy but of personal interest to Junkin.  It also contains photographs, some made from glass plate negatives, which are stored separately as part of Thomas Balch Library's visual collection (see VC 0038).  Box 7 contains eight folders tied together containing copies of original letters found elsewhere in the collection.  The numbers in parentheses on some folders refer to Junkin's filing system.  They are incomplete and have no meaning in this present compilation.","The collection consists primarily of letters to and from Francis T.A. Junkin containing genealogical information, but also a considerable amount of personal family information and letters from other family members.  Families included are primarily Junkin, Anderson and Aylett; secondary families include Alexander, Dandridge, Henry, Spotswood, West, Moore, Macon, Reid, and Glasgow.","Anderson, Col. 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The house still stands on the outskirts of Lexington.  \n\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eJunkin first showed interest in genealogy in 1878 when he wrote to his mother's cousin, William Winston Fontaine (1834-1917), seeking information about the family.  By the early 20th century he was corresponding regularly and at length with relatives regarding family history.  He completed a large genealogy chart in 1908, and continued pursuing personal information on the families represented on the chart as well as more distant connections.  He married Emily Hutchison Crane (ca. 1866-n.d.) in Paris, France in 1913. On 15 September 1919 Junkin was appointed a member of the Board of Contract Adjustment with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Army.  The board was created as a court of final appeals in adjusting claims against the U.S. Government arising after the end of World War I.  Junkin lived in Washington, D.C. from 1920 until his death on 6 May 1928.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003e\nFrancis T.A. Junkin also had connections to the Rust family in Loudoun County, Virginia.  His niece, Lily Lawrence Rust Fendall (1880-1973), was the granddaughter of Armistead Thomson Mason Rust (1820-1887) of \"Rockland\" Leesburg, Virginia and his first wife, Eliza Southgate Lawrence (1828-1958).  Junkin's sister, Elinor, was first married to Lewis Berkeley Cox (1856-1901) of \"Stoke\" in Aldie, Virginia.  Their son, William Junkin Cox (1896-1989), was married twice, first to Ida Lee Edwards (1898-1950) and second to Jane Rust (1918-1977).  Both women were granddaughters of Armistead Rust and his second wife, Ida Lee (1840-1921).  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He resided in Chicago and New York City, but retained close ties with Lexington and Rockbridge County.   His sister, Elinor Jackson Junkin Cox Latane (1867-1939), purchased \"Mulberry Hill\" in 1903 where she lived with their mother.  The property was originally built by Junkin's ancestors and changed hands a number of times in the 19th century.  The house still stands on the outskirts of Lexington.","Junkin first showed interest in genealogy in 1878 when he wrote to his mother's cousin, William Winston Fontaine (1834-1917), seeking information about the family.  By the early 20th century he was corresponding regularly and at length with relatives regarding family history.  He completed a large genealogy chart in 1908, and continued pursuing personal information on the families represented on the chart as well as more distant connections.  He married Emily Hutchison Crane (ca. 1866-n.d.) in Paris, France in 1913. 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William Junkin Cox's descendants still live in Leesburg."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes 9 boxes, with a total of 188 folders covering family information primarily of the Junkin, Anderson and Aylett families.  Numerous other relations and connections appear in the collection including Alexander, Dandridge, Henry, Spotswood, West, Moore, Macon, Reid, and Glasgow among others. Oversized materials includes a letter, genealogy research, and six 19th century newspapers.  There is also a rolled family chart, with a photocopy for research use.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains primarily letters to and from Francis T.A. Junkin containing genealogical information, but also a considerable amount of personal family information and letters from other family members, the oldest dated 1798. There are also extracts of wills, deeds and tomb inscriptions dating as far back as 1517.  Box 6 contains miscellaneous information unrelated to genealogy but of personal interest to Junkin.  It also contains photographs, some made from glass plate negatives, which are stored separately as part of Thomas Balch Library's visual collection (see VC 0038).  Box 7 contains eight folders tied together containing copies of original letters found elsewhere in the collection.  The numbers in parentheses on some folders refer to Junkin's filing system.  They are incomplete and have no meaning in this present compilation.  \u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection includes 9 boxes, with a total of 188 folders covering family information primarily of the Junkin, Anderson and Aylett families.  Numerous other relations and connections appear in the collection including Alexander, Dandridge, Henry, Spotswood, West, Moore, Macon, Reid, and Glasgow among others. Oversized materials includes a letter, genealogy research, and six 19th century newspapers.  There is also a rolled family chart, with a photocopy for research use.","The collection contains primarily letters to and from Francis T.A. Junkin containing genealogical information, but also a considerable amount of personal family information and letters from other family members, the oldest dated 1798. There are also extracts of wills, deeds and tomb inscriptions dating as far back as 1517.  Box 6 contains miscellaneous information unrelated to genealogy but of personal interest to Junkin.  It also contains photographs, some made from glass plate negatives, which are stored separately as part of Thomas Balch Library's visual collection (see VC 0038).  Box 7 contains eight folders tied together containing copies of original letters found elsewhere in the collection.  The numbers in parentheses on some folders refer to Junkin's filing system.  They are incomplete and have no meaning in this present compilation."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection consists primarily of letters to and from Francis T.A. Junkin containing genealogical information, but also a considerable amount of personal family information and letters from other family members.  Families included are primarily Junkin, Anderson and Aylett; secondary families include Alexander, Dandridge, Henry, Spotswood, West, Moore, Macon, Reid, and Glasgow.\n\u003c/abstract\u003e\n      "],"abstract_tesim":["The collection consists primarily of letters to and from Francis T.A. Junkin containing genealogical information, but also a considerable amount of personal family information and letters from other family members.  Families included are primarily Junkin, Anderson and Aylett; secondary families include Alexander, Dandridge, Henry, Spotswood, West, Moore, Macon, Reid, and Glasgow."],"persname_ssim":["Anderson, Col. 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Other fund-raising ventures include the Ladies Board Gift Shop established in 1974, first located in the hospital at Cornwall Street in Leesburg and now at Inova Loudoun Hospital's Lansdowne location.  In 1990 TLB opened a thrift shop, Twice Is Nice, currently located at 305 East Market Street in Leesburg.  To help raise money for nursing scholarships given by TLB, a Lights of Love program was established in 1983.  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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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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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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.  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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_c06"}},{"id":"viletbl_viletbl00234_c06","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"box 6, [title not supplied]","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viletbl_viletbl00234_c06#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00234_c06","ref_ssm":["viletbl_viletbl00234_c06"],"id":"viletbl_viletbl00234_c06","ead_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00234","_root_":"viletbl_viletbl00234","_nest_parent_":"viletbl_viletbl00234","parent_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00234","parent_ssim":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007"],"parent_ids_ssim":["viletbl_viletbl00234"],"title_filing_ssi":"box 6, [title not supplied]","title_ssm":["box 6, [title not supplied]"],"title_tesim":["box 6, [title not supplied]"],"normalized_title_ssm":["box 6, [title not supplied]"],"text":["box 6, [title not supplied]","Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007","box 6"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007"],"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"component_level_isim":[1],"sort_isi":111,"repository_ssim":["Thomas Balch Library"],"collection_ssim":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007"],"containers_ssim":["box 6"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":18,"_nest_path_":"/components#5","timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:22:56.531Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viletbl_viletbl00234","ead_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00234","_root_":"viletbl_viletbl00234","_nest_parent_":"viletbl_viletbl00234","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/tbl/viletbl00234.xml","title_ssm":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007"],"title_tesim":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007"],"text":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007","VC 0037","Box: folder","Sam Legard is the son of Samuel Campbell Legard (1898-1981) and Edith Potts Legard (1897-1960). 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The photographs concentrate on new construction and areas slated for development and were often used to establish insurance policies and settle claims. Legard stored them in three-ring binders arranged by job. This arrangement has been preserved, and there is no item level indexing available. The folder titles are taken from the names Legard assigned each job.","The collection is composed primarily of aerial photographs of Loudoun County. Most of the photographs are in color and measure 5 x 7 inches, though there are other sizes as well. In some cases, the negatives are also included. 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He began selling insurance in the 1950s and operated as an independent insurance agent in Leesburg until he retired. His insurance agency, Sam Legard Insurance, still operates. Legard also explored interests in flying and photography. He combined flying and photography with his professional work as an insurance salesman by taking aerial photographs of areas to be insured and damages covered by policies. He was employed at various times by the Town of Leesburg and Loudoun County to photograph areas of development."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is composed primarily of aerial photographs of Loudoun County. Most of the photographs are in color and measure 5 x 7 inches, though there are other sizes as well. In some cases, the negatives are also included. The photographs concentrate on new construction and areas slated for development and were often used to establish insurance policies and settle claims. Legard stored them in three-ring binders arranged by job. 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(BHC) was formed in June 2000 as a result of an anonymous $50,000 donation. The committee's first task was the naming of one of the rooms in the recently renovated Thomas Balch Library in honor of an African American as stipulated by the donation. Howard W. Clark Sr. (1876-1960) was selected. The mission of the Black History Committee was and still is \"to preserve, collect, promote, and share the history of African-Americans who lived in and contributed to the emergence of Loudoun County\" (Black History Committee, 2000). Upon its creation, Pauline Singletary took up the mantle of the first chair of the Committee.","BHC continued in operation following naming of the room, and discussed possible projects and goals. Mary Randolph expressed the concern that many black communities around the county were disappearing due to people moving away or being destroyed by development; as a result the BHC began the Community History andamp; Mapping Project. The committee applied for and was awarded a grant from the Loudoun Library Foundation to collect and transcribe oral histories and document these communities. The BHC began working on the Oral History Project in 2000. The project's goal was to preserve and share Loudoun County's African American history.","Deborah Lee, a member of the BHC, resigned as a voting member of the BHC and began managing the project. With the help of the committee, Lee identified thirty-two stand-alone African American communities and thirteen communities that were part of larger towns and hamlets. She worked with Loudoun County Office of Mapping and Geographic Information to produce a map of African American communities for Thomas Balch Library and county planners. The result was African American Architectural Surveys in Loudoun County, 2004 (M 013 and OMB 003). Thanks to the initiative of Planning Commissioner Kathryn Miller, the map was a catalyst for the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to commission History Matters, LLC to do a formal historic resources survey of the county's African American sites. The files of both projects have been placed in the archives at Thomas Balch Library.","The Loudoun Library Foundation and the BHC continued to fund the oral history project and a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities was used to develop and print Loudoun County's African American Communities: A Tour Map andamp; Guide (2004), written by Deborah Lee with the editorial assistance of members of the BHC.","Work on the Oral History Project continued until 2006. Many African Americans and a few whites were interviewed for this project. 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