Sope Creek Garden Club records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains bound scrapbooks and club records such as awards, meeting minutes, yearbooks, and Secretary's Books, detailing the civic and social activities of the Sope Creek Garden Club. Secretary's Books include attendance logs, meeting minutes, and reports. Scrapbook materials consist of newspaper clippings, photographs, and flower show awards that illustrate the club's interests and projects. Of special note are scrapbook clippings and images of the Sope Creek historic covered bridge.
Dates
- 1948-2022, undated
Creator
- Sope Creek Garden Club (Marietta Ga.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.
Biographical / Historical
The Sope Creek Garden Club was founded in 1947 in Marietta, Georgia. The club's mission is to grow plants, shrubs and flowers; to beautify the home, the highways, and roads of the Marietta community; and to enter exhibits in designated flower shows and fairs including the club's own shows. Their first civic project was to help preserve Sope Creek's historic covered bridge on Paper Mill Road in Cobb County. Governed by elected leaders, such as president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer; the club is affiliated with National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc., The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc., and the Marietta Council of Garden Clubs, Inc. In 1969 the Sope Creek Garden Club received the Natural Beauty and Conservation Award from the Marietta Cobb County Civic Board of Beautification. The club developed two gardens at McFarlane Nature Park in Marietta and also participates in flower shows.
Extent
18.5 linear ft. (six document cases and eleven oversize boxes)
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, 2018, with subsequent additions
Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2019 with subsequent additions.
- Chattahoochee River
- Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (Ga.)
- Covered bridges -- Georgia -- Marietta
- Flower shows -- Georgia -- Marietta
- Garden Club of Georgia.
- Marietta (Ga.)
- Marietta (Ga.) -- History
- National Council of State Garden Clubs
- Rivers -- Georgia
- Scrapbooks -- Georgia
- Sope Creek (Cobb County, Ga.)
- Sope Creek Garden Club (Marietta Ga.)
- State Botanical Garden of Georgia
- Women -- Georgia -- Societies and clubs
- Title
- Sope Creek Garden Club records
- Author
- Serena McCracken and Ginny Van Winkle
- Date
- August 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center Repository