Allyn's Creek Garden Club

Maggie Symington, Leslie Huey (ACGC President), Sue Stahl (ACGC Historian), and Autumn Haag (Asst. Director, Department of Rare Books,  Special Collections, and Preservation at the University of Rochester) On October 4, 2021, Allyn’s Creek Garden Club donated its historical meeting minutes from 1928 to 1972 to the University of Rochester for archiving and preservation. The eight leather-bound binders contain meticulously hand-written or typed pages and document the club’s early focus not just on gardening, but also activism and philanthropy. Early club endeavors included consulting on designation of the lilac as the city flower, protesting billboards in Brighton and the widening of East Avenue in Rochester, and supplying milk to needy families. The collection will be made accessible to those wishing to research horticultural history as well as women’s studies. It will complement the University of Rochester’s records from other local women’s clubs and will broaden the picture of Rochest