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Expressway Beautification Association records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS654

Scope and Content

This collection contains reports, correspondence, and clippings that document the activities of the association. Included in the collection is a landscape planting report by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads that details the planting goals of the project. These materials illustrate the coordinated effort between the association, local landscape architects, and state and federal highway departments.

Dates

  • 1949-1956, undated

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.

Administrative/Biographical History

The Expressway Beautification Association was formed in 1952 by co-chairs Jean H. Neely and Peggy F. Hughes, past-presidents of the Lenox Park Garden Club, to improve landscaping of the new North-South Expressway, now referred to as the I-75/85 or Downtown Connector, from downtown Atlanta to the Brookwood Station. The association consisted of over one hundred Atlanta garden clubs that worked with both federal and state highway departments, along with Atlanta landscape architect Eugene R. Martini as well as nurseryman Frank A. Smith, who provided designs and supervised the landscaping. Over 10,000 trees, shrubs, and vines were planted over a four year period. The association participated in this beautification project until its completion in 1956.

Extent

0.5 linear ft. (one half document case and two flat files)

Language

English

System of Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically according to titles supplied by staff.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, 1980

Description Control

This collection was reprocessed in 2014.

Title
Expressway Beautification Association records
Author
Jennie Oldfield
Date
2014
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository

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