Arp Garden Club visits Canton
Photo by Britne Hammons
The Arp Garden Club toured historical landmarks of Canton will also being treated to a presentation by Alice Towles, as portrayed by Canton Mayor Lou Ann Everitt, far left at top.
The Arp Garden Club was welcomed to the Blackwell House Museum Wednesday Oct. 14, 2015, by Canton’s Iris Garden Club.
After a tour of the historic Blackwell House and its grounds, including the newly erected gazebo, the visitors were escorted to Canton’s Hillcrest Cemetery where they learned of the importance of the support of the Iris Garden Club which formed in 1934 for the purpose of beautifying Canton.
Hillcrest Cemetery, then known as the Canton City Cemetery, was 95 years old and the garden club members began their project of making Canton attractive by adopting the cemetery as a focus of their endeavors by installing a roadway and landscaping the area.
A contest held in 1935 resulted in the present name of Hillcrest Cemetery because of its location on the crest of a hill. A sign was erected across the entrance with the new name. Part of the original sign was recently replaced and moved to the present entrance site as a part of the ongoing restoration of this historic site.
Hillcrest Cemetery has continued to receive attention from the Iris Garden Club throughout the years in the form of landscaping, labor from the members and money for projects.
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