Whitehead Camellia Trail
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Campus Building Plans
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-4-5-5
Scope and Contents
Contains drawings, plans, and blueprints for Valdosta State Campus. Many are proposals that were never carried out or were altered in some way.
Dates:
Acquired: 2006-01-23
Frank R. Reade Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-2-1-3
Scope and Contents
Reade's papers invite leisurely perusal to appreciate his humor and erudition. His papers are expansive, covering topics from his family and genealogy to administrative correspondence to correspondence with and photographs of the famous men and women of his day. The collection includes books, journals, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, drawings, photographs, and realia. The correspondence ranges from a manuscript of a Civil War era diary by Frank Smith Robertson (1841-1926), Reade's...
Dates:
1841 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1948
Whitehead Camellia Trail
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-22-19
Scope and Contents
The Whitehead Camellia Trail was donated as a Christmas gift in 1944 to Georgia State Womans College. Mrs. Jewel Whitehead donated 150 camellia plants to the college, and took the time and effort to plant them on the north end of the main campus amongst some pine trees. She continuously worked on the trail throughout the rest of her life, adding new flowers and keeping up the old ones.
This collection contains correspondence about the Trail, the history of it, and newspaper articles about...
Dates:
Acquired: 2005-03-05