Waterford - Leesburg Garden Club

–FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE–
Waterford
Where the past is always present
April 22, 2013 2 10am–5pm
A walking tour presented
by the Leesburg Garden Club, the Fauquier
and Loudoun Garden Club and the Garden
Club of Virginia to benefit the restoration of
historic Virginia gardens.
Photography by Steve Hillebrand
Tour Highlights
1 This is the 80th Anniversary of the Garden Club of Virginia’s Historic Garden Week
Home and Garden Tour.
80 th Anniversary!
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1 Funds raised during Historic Garden Week are used toward the restoration of historic
gardens and grounds across the Commonwealth of Virginia.
1 Tour home, Joseph Janney House was named as one of Top Ten Historic Homes for 2012
by the Washington Post.
1 The newly restored Waterford Old School serves as tour headquarters.
1 Number seven on tour, the Wauchope House has never before been open to the public.
1 Except for a short drive to the Wauchope House, this is a walking tour through the village of
Waterford, VA. Map will be provided. Wear comfortable walking shoes.
1 Floral arrangements in tour homes are created by members of the Leesburg Garden Club,
Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club and other local garden clubs.
1 Box lunches are available by reservation by April 17, 2013. Contact Suzanne Worsham at
[email protected] for details.
1Admission $20 single home; tour all six properties $30 in advance or $35 on the day of
tour; ages 6–12 are half price; 5 and younger are free. See www.leesburggardenclub.org for
details of ticket locations or by mail order. Tickets may be purchased securely on line at
www.vagardenweek.org.
1 Outlets for tickets: In Leesburg–The Marshall House, Loudoun Convention & Visitors
Association, Leesburg Vintner, Oatlands Plantation; in Middleburg–The Pink Box; Waterford–
Waterford Old School; at individual homes day of tour.
1Visit www.leesburggardenclub.org for more details.
For more information visit www.leesburggardenclub.org or call 540-338-5453
Historic Garden Week is
presented by the Garden Club
of Virginia and is conducted
for one week only April 20–27,
2013. Owners of over 200
homes and gardens around the
Commonwealth open their doors
and garden gates to the public to
showcase historic properties.
Thirty outstanding tours
presented by individual affiliated
garden clubs generate funds
to restore cherished historic
gardens and grounds of Virginia’s
prominent places and historic
figures, including George and
Martha Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, James and Dolley
Madison, Patrick Henry, George
Mason, Robert E. Lee and
Woodrow Wilson.