Swanton Garden Club (Swanton, OH) Records

The activities of the Swanton Garden Club are detailed through the club’s monthly minutes from January 1953 through August 1988. Minutes include the date and time of each meeting, its location and hostesses, excluding those months when the meeting was a club outing, and the activities performed. Also mentioned are presiding club officers and guests present. Dues lists from the years 1953-1986 are also included, although only the information for January and February 1986 is available. These records provide a list of the members’ names and the dues paid.

If one consults the compiled scrapbooks in their entirety, they will find a yearbook detailing the club’s activities available from 1931 through 1986. However, very little else collected in the scrapbooks is continuous. Each book seems to have been assembled by individuals with vastly different access to materials and very separate interests. The scrapbooks can be an invaluable source for supplemental information on the club’s enterprises, providing event programs, photos (many of which have not been properly identified), newspaper clippings, and prize ribbons, but this is all sporadic in scope and relevance, so researchers should not expect to find the same information available for each year covered.