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Warrenton Garden Club, the oldest garden club in Virginia and second-oldest in the entire nation, established an untraditional model for garden club members when it was founded in 1911 by women who decided they'd had it with roadside signs spoiling the Fauquier countryside.
According to the club’s history, a handful of women from Fauquier and Loudoun counties who were fed up with billboard clutter along local roads took to eliminating the nuisances by chopping and burning them down.
Not exactly your typical little old' ladies at a garden party. One wonders what in the world must their husbands have thought?
“I don’t think these ladies much cared,” chuckles Maria Tufts, current president of the Warrenton Garden Club.
Laurie Stark, a member of the club and a devotee of its history, traces the club’s present activities in preservation and conservation to that handful of club founders: “We have always had an environmental focus. If you look at the emphasis on activities of the club, it’s about half on conservation and half on horticulture.”
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