Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
Members of the Longfellow Garden Club plant a hawthorn tree in the garden behind the Wadsworth-Longfellow House on Congress Street in Portland.
The club began in 1924 to restore and maintain the gardens behind the house that Peleg Wadsworth built for his family in 1785-1786. Wadsworth's daughter Zilpah and her husband, Stephen Longfellow, raised their family in the house. Among their offspring was poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Anne Longfellow Pierce gave the house and grounds to the Maine Historical Society when she died in 1901.
About This Item
- Title: Longfellow Garden Club tree planting, Portland, 1957
- Creator: Gardner Roberts
- Creation Date: 1957
- Subject Date: 1957
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 1936, Ledger III, vol. VI, p. 75
- Collection: Longfellow Garden Club records
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Gardening--Societies, etc.--Maine--Portland
- Historic gardens--Maine--Portland
- Longfellow Garden Club (Portland, Me.)
- Trees--Maine--Portland
- Wadsworth-Longfellow House (Portland, Me.)
Other Keywords
- Costume
- Garden clubs
- Gardens
- Hawthorn tree
- Longfellow Garden Club
- Portland
- Wadsworth-Longfellow House
- Women's clubs
For more information about this item, contact:
Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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