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Hudson River Conservation Society, Cold Spring, New York
Garden Club of Orange & Dutchess
Counties
In 1938 the vision and energy
of the leaders of the Garden Club of Orange and Dutchess Counties
promoted an awareness of the necessity to preserve one of the great
beauty spots of America, the Highlands of the Hudson River. With the
support of garden clubs up and down the river they appealed to the
Founders Fund for a grant to the Hudson River Conservation Society to
aid in the purchase of the Mount Taurus Quarry in Cold Spring, NY.
Following the receipt of the Founders Fund Award, the original intent
had to be changed as the price for the quarry zoomed to two million
dollars. The Hudson River Conservation Society suggested that the award
be used for plans to beautify the Hudson River waterfronts which was
approved by the Garden Club of America.
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Bergen Swamp, Rochester, New York
Rochester Garden Club
When 24 acres of land were
purchased for the Bergen Swamp Preservation Society with funds from the
1947 Founders Fund Award, that area became known as the Garden Club of
America Tract. A gift of 200 acres of land had been made to the Society
in 1946 from funds raised jointly by the Rochester Garden Club and
Allyn's Creek Garden Club. Bergen Swamp Preservation Society was
chartered by the State of New York Board of Regents in 1936. The swamp
lies about 20 miles west of Rochester in the town of Bergen and the
terrain consists of open marl bogs, swamp, cedar thickets, and forest.
There are 2,324 known species of plants and among the 16 varieties of
orchids to be found is a rare Cypripedium candidum. Warblers and other
birds not usually sighted in our area nest in the swamp. The rare
Massaugua rattler and Muhlenberg's turtle inhabit it.
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Senate House, Kingston, New York
Ulster Garden Club
The Senate House in Kingston,
New York is an early Dutch stone house built in 1676. In 1777 the first
New York State Senate organized and held its first meetings in this
house. It is now maintained as a State Historic Site. The gardens behind
the Senate House have been a project of the Ulster Garden Club since
1946. In 1964 the club was awarded the Founders Fund Award to carry out
plans drawn up by a landscape architect, Herbert Cutler, for a garden
containing appropriate varieties of perennials common to an 18th century
garden.
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Brooklyn Botanic
Garden, Brooklyn, New York
Garden Club of Lawrence
The 1988 Founders Fund Award allowed the Garden
Club of Lawrence to provide specially designed equipment for an
Educational Greenhouse for the Handicapped at the Brooklyn Botanic
Garden. The purpose of the project was to make a greenhouse classroom
fully accessible to the mentally and physically handicapped. This was
accomplished by providing hydraulic work tables, 9 propagation benches,
and adaptable tools in the greenhouse classroom of the Garden's
Educational Center. The project enriches the community by assuring that
physically challenged children and adults can enjoy the same privileges
and educational opportunities that the new greenhouse offered to those
without disabilities.
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Locktender's Garden at
the Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse, New York
Syracuse Garden Club
The Erie Canal linked more
than the cities of Albany and Buffalo; it opened America's Midwestern
heartland to European immigrants entering New York harbor. Locktenders
at 88 liftlocks and 7weighlocks worked around the clock serving as
sources of provisions and human contact for travelers .Locktenders'
gardens combined a kitchen garden with apothecary herbs and flowers. The
Erie Canal Museum invited the Syracuse Garden Club to create a typical
locktender's garden at the Weighlock Building . The Weighlock Building,
the only one remaining in the world, was built in 1850 to weigh canal
boats. It is located in the heart of downtown Syracuse. The 1991
Founders Fund Award enabled the club to finish the construction of the
garden.
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