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Celebrate the 75th
Anniversary of Historic Garden Week in Virginia
April 19 - 27, 2008
Historic Garden Week, entering its 75th
season, is the oldest and largest statewide house and garden
tour event in the nation. Tours benefit the restoration of
important historic grounds and gardens throughout the state.
Each event offers an engaging variety of five to six local
houses and gardens, most open to the public for the first
time for Garden Week.
Visitors will step through the gates of
more than 250 of Virginia’s most beautiful gardens, homes
and historic landmarks during “America’s Largest Open
House,” April 19-27, 2008. Three dozen Historic Garden Week
tours present a rich mosaic of some of the country’s finest
properties at the peak of Virginia’s springtime color.
Sponsored by The Garden Club of Virginia, local events are
scheduled from the Atlantic Ocean to the Allegheny Mountains
and will span the centuries from the early 17th through the
early 21st.
Interesting lectures and tours will be
held during Garden Week at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
in Charlottesville. Monticello’s grounds are among more
than three dozen restorations of historic gardens and
grounds by The Garden Club of Virginia, with funding
from Garden Week tours. The birthplace of President
Woodrow Wilson, a restoration project of The Garden Club
of Virginia, will serve as the information center for
the tour in the Staunton area.For additional
information please contact the Historic
Garden Week Executive Director at
gdnweek@verizon.net.
Overnight accommodations can be obtained by calling the
Virginia Tourism Corporation 1-800-VISITVA or online at www.virginia.org.
Did you know?
- Historic Garden Week was organized by
The Garden Club of Virginia more than seven decades ago
to provide funding to restore historic gardens and
grounds throughout Virginia.
- The Garden Club of Virginia's
Historic Garden Week has provided funds for more than
forty restoration projects since 1929.
- The Garden Club of Virginia's
Historic Garden Week funds two fellowships annually for
landscape architecture students.
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