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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.  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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.  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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.\"","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.  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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. 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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.  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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.  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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.  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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_c10"}},{"id":"viletbl_viletbl00234_c10","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"box 10, [title not supplied]","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viletbl_viletbl00234_c10#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00234_c10","ref_ssm":["viletbl_viletbl00234_c10"],"id":"viletbl_viletbl00234_c10","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 10, [title not supplied]","title_ssm":["box 10, [title not supplied]"],"title_tesim":["box 10, [title not supplied]"],"normalized_title_ssm":["box 10, [title not supplied]"],"text":["box 10, [title not supplied]","Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007","box 10"],"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":192,"repository_ssim":["Thomas Balch Library"],"collection_ssim":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007"],"containers_ssim":["box 10"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":15,"_nest_path_":"/components#9","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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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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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_c11"}},{"id":"viletbl_viletbl00234_c11","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"box 11, [title not supplied]","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viletbl_viletbl00234_c11#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"viletbl_viletbl00234_c11","ref_ssm":["viletbl_viletbl00234_c11"],"id":"viletbl_viletbl00234_c11","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 11, [title not supplied]","title_ssm":["box 11, [title not supplied]"],"title_tesim":["box 11, [title not supplied]"],"normalized_title_ssm":["box 11, [title not supplied]"],"text":["box 11, [title not supplied]","Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007","box 11"],"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":208,"repository_ssim":["Thomas Balch Library"],"collection_ssim":["Sam Legard Photograph Collection\n1958-2007"],"containers_ssim":["box 11"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":17,"_nest_path_":"/components#10","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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Shenton (Frances Billings) Lodge (ca. 1894) to discuss forming a club and joining the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs (hereafter VFWC). VFWC, founded in 1907, served as a way to connect women's clubs in the state so that members could draw on one another's experience and promote civic works. The attendees of the first meeting worked with the VFWC to establish the club's objectives and structure.","The first meeting of The Woman's Club of Loudoun took place on 9 Sep 1944, and 55 women joined. A Board of Governors was appointed, and Mrs. Lodge elected as the club's first president. Acceptance of The Loudoun Woman's Club into the VFWC was announced at a meeting held 4 Nov 1944. In 1946, the club adopted the iris as its flower, and purple and gold as the club's colors. The club was incorporated in 1948. The Woman's Club of Loudoun, Inc. sponsored the creation of Junior Woman's Club of Loudoun in 1950, and over the years included it in activities and fundraisers. 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A music committee was established early in the history of the club, and music was an important part of its activities and programs. Programs included performances and talks by club members, as well as guest artists. The Arts Department sponsored art and writing contests in the local schools from 1945 through the 1960's, presenting awards at their annual meeting. Club members entered their own work in contests at the district meeting, which sent winners to the VFWC annual meetings. Local contests were started in 1969. The Arts Department also held workshops, organized tours, and brought in speakers.","In addition to enrichment activities for members, the club has lent support to the community. Overseen by the Ways and Means Committee, the club engaged in a variety of fundraising activities, such as card parties, fashion shows, bake sales and rummage sales to finance civic projects. From early on education and youth welfare have been of great interest to the club. The Education Department created a Student Loan Fund in 1945, intended to help students who wanted to have a teaching career. Other areas of interest include health and welfare, conservation, and community improvement projects.","The collection contains the records of The Woman's Club of Loudoun, Inc. It includes histories, minutes, financial records, newsletters, and scrapbooks. There is a small amount of correspondence and some publications, both club produced and from other organizations.","Club histories were originally kept in three-ring binders, and have been filed in parts due to size. Minutes include board and general meetings. Some volumes contained inserted material such as correspondence, programs, and financial reports. Minutes were also originally in three-ring binders, and because of size have been broken down into smaller parts for filing. The 1986-1990 minutes, unlike others, were arranged in reverse chronological order. 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A music committee was established early in the history of the club, and music was an important part of its activities and programs. Programs included performances and talks by club members, as well as guest artists. The Arts Department sponsored art and writing contests in the local schools from 1945 through the 1960's, presenting awards at their annual meeting. Club members entered their own work in contests at the district meeting, which sent winners to the VFWC annual meetings. Local contests were started in 1969. The Arts Department also held workshops, organized tours, and brought in speakers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to enrichment activities for members, the club has lent support to the community. Overseen by the Ways and Means Committee, the club engaged in a variety of fundraising activities, such as card parties, fashion shows, bake sales and rummage sales to finance civic projects. From early on education and youth welfare have been of great interest to the club. The Education Department created a Student Loan Fund in 1945, intended to help students who wanted to have a teaching career. Other areas of interest include health and welfare, conservation, and community improvement projects.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["A group of thirteen women met on 19 Jul 1944 at the home of Mrs. J. Shenton (Frances Billings) Lodge (ca. 1894) to discuss forming a club and joining the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs (hereafter VFWC). VFWC, founded in 1907, served as a way to connect women's clubs in the state so that members could draw on one another's experience and promote civic works. The attendees of the first meeting worked with the VFWC to establish the club's objectives and structure.","The first meeting of The Woman's Club of Loudoun took place on 9 Sep 1944, and 55 women joined. A Board of Governors was appointed, and Mrs. Lodge elected as the club's first president. Acceptance of The Loudoun Woman's Club into the VFWC was announced at a meeting held 4 Nov 1944. In 1946, the club adopted the iris as its flower, and purple and gold as the club's colors. The club was incorporated in 1948. The Woman's Club of Loudoun, Inc. sponsored the creation of Junior Woman's Club of Loudoun in 1950, and over the years included it in activities and fundraisers. Membership in The Woman's Club peaked in 1954 at 142 and declined in the following decades. However, in 2004 the club was recognized at the District Meeting for its recruiting efforts, with a membership standing at 59.","The club created seven departments to guide their activities: American Home, Fine Arts, Education, Citizenship, Welfare, War Service, and Red Cross. Over time some departments were added or eliminated, reflecting the changing interests of the club. Department chairmen developed a variety of programs and invited speakers to come to club events. Speakers ranged from a representative from the Norwegian Embassy to Luther H. Evans, Librarian of Congress. While many programs were for club members only, other events included guests and spouses, such as the annual picnic. Four committees were also formed at the first meeting: Hospitality, Publicity, Membership, and Registrar.","From the beginning, the arts were a strong area of interest. A music committee was established early in the history of the club, and music was an important part of its activities and programs. Programs included performances and talks by club members, as well as guest artists. The Arts Department sponsored art and writing contests in the local schools from 1945 through the 1960's, presenting awards at their annual meeting. Club members entered their own work in contests at the district meeting, which sent winners to the VFWC annual meetings. Local contests were started in 1969. The Arts Department also held workshops, organized tours, and brought in speakers.","In addition to enrichment activities for members, the club has lent support to the community. Overseen by the Ways and Means Committee, the club engaged in a variety of fundraising activities, such as card parties, fashion shows, bake sales and rummage sales to finance civic projects. From early on education and youth welfare have been of great interest to the club. The Education Department created a Student Loan Fund in 1945, intended to help students who wanted to have a teaching career. Other areas of interest include health and welfare, conservation, and community improvement projects."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection contains the records of The Woman's Club of Loudoun, Inc. It includes histories, minutes, financial records, newsletters, and scrapbooks. There is a small amount of correspondence and some publications, both club produced and from other organizations.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eClub histories were originally kept in three-ring binders, and have been filed in parts due to size. Minutes include board and general meetings. Some volumes contained inserted material such as correspondence, programs, and financial reports. Minutes were also originally in three-ring binders, and because of size have been broken down into smaller parts for filing. The 1986-1990 minutes, unlike others, were arranged in reverse chronological order. The 1996-2000 minutes include treasurer's and annual reports. There is also a duplicate set of minutes kept by Mrs. Arthur S. (Pearl Shreve) Jenkins (24 Sep 1891-14 Jul 1978), president from 1948-1951. These contain many inserts such as correspondence, notes, and newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also contains six scrapbooks. Two are scrapbooks put together by club presidents, which include photographs, cards, mementos, programs, and newspaper clippings. Four additional Club Scrapbooks contain correspondence, clippings, and reports. Two of these books are in very fragile condition.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The collection contains the records of The Woman's Club of Loudoun, Inc. It includes histories, minutes, financial records, newsletters, and scrapbooks. There is a small amount of correspondence and some publications, both club produced and from other organizations.","Club histories were originally kept in three-ring binders, and have been filed in parts due to size. Minutes include board and general meetings. Some volumes contained inserted material such as correspondence, programs, and financial reports. Minutes were also originally in three-ring binders, and because of size have been broken down into smaller parts for filing. The 1986-1990 minutes, unlike others, were arranged in reverse chronological order. The 1996-2000 minutes include treasurer's and annual reports. There is also a duplicate set of minutes kept by Mrs. Arthur S. (Pearl Shreve) Jenkins (24 Sep 1891-14 Jul 1978), president from 1948-1951. These contain many inserts such as correspondence, notes, and newspaper clippings.","The collection also contains six scrapbooks. Two are scrapbooks put together by club presidents, which include photographs, cards, mementos, programs, and newspaper clippings. Four additional Club Scrapbooks contain correspondence, clippings, and reports. Two of these books are in very fragile condition."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection contains the records of The Woman's Club of Loudoun, Inc. It includes histories, minutes, financial records, newsletters, and 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.  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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.  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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.  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