A Guide to the Botetourt County Council of Garden Clubs Collection

A Guide to the Botetourt County Council of Garden Clubs Collection

The Botetourt County Council of Garden Clubs was organized in October 1957. It initially consisted of seven member clubs: Fincastle Garden Club, Eagle Rock Garden Club, Plant and Hope Garden Club, Buchanan Garden Club, Big Spring Garden Club, Orchard View Garden Club, and Castle Garden Club. Its purpose was to hold countywide flower shows and programs. Later member clubs included: Bonsack Garden Club, Rainbow Forest Garden Club, and Flowering Hills Garden Club. There had been a precursor organization with a similar function, the Botetourt County Federation of Garden Clubs, active in the 1930s and 1940s. The Botetourt Council of Garden Clubs was dissolved in 1995.
The collection includes Botetourt County Council of Garden Club minutes and administrative documents for the years 1957-1976 and 1988-1995 as well as scrapbooks and albums that record the organization’s activities through newspaper clippings, ephemera, and photographs covering the span of the council’s existence. The 1961 Flower Show is well documented by a Scrapbook that won a state award and photographic slides of many entries. The collection also includes a flower show record book, covering the years 1933-38 from a precursor organization, the Botetourt County Federation of Garden Clubs.

Botetourt County Council of Garden Clubs and Botetourt County Federation of Garden Clubs

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