Southern Garden Heritage Conference records
Scope and Content
This collection contains material that provides information on the conference programs and speakers. Brochures and handouts are included in the collection, which offer details on topics explored during the conferences.
Dates
- 2000-2014
Creator
- State Botanical Garden of Georgia. Friends of the Garden (Organization)
- Garden Club of Georgia. (Organization)
- University of Georgia. College of Environment & Design (Organization)
- State Botanical Garden of Georgia (Organization)
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Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.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 Southern Garden Heritage Conference began in 2000 as a collaboration between James R. Cothran, FASLA, landscape architect and garden historian; Dr. Jefferson Lewis III, horticulturist, professor and Director of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia; and Neal Weatherly, Jr., FASLA, landscape architect and University of Georgia professor. The conference is sponsored by the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, the Friends of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, the University of Georgia College of Environment & Design, and The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. The purpose of the conference is to encourage appreciation and share knowledge of the preservation of historic gardens and landscapes. Conferences are held annually in Georgia with an agenda that includes numerous lectures on a diverse range of topics concerning preservation, restoration, and management of historic gardens and landscapes as well as historic horticulture and garden history in the South.
Extent
0.42 linear ft. (one document case)
Language
English
System of Arrangement
This collection is arranged chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collected by staff.
Description Control
This collection was processed in 2012 with subsequent additions.
- Garden Club of Georgia.
- Gardens -- Conservation and restoration -- Georgia
- Historic gardens -- Conservation and restoration
- Historic preservation -- Southern States
- Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Georgia
- Landscape architecture -- Southern States
- Landscape gardening -- Southern States -- History
- Title
- Southern Garden Heritage Conference records
- Author
- Jennie Oldfield
- Date
- 2012
- 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