Atlanta Women's Club - GHM 060-149A – Fulton Co., GA
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Quick Description: Atlanta Women's Club State Historical Marker located on the west side of Peachtree Street at 1150 Peachtree Street, south of 14th street, Atlanta.
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 1/6/2008 7:32:24 PM
Waymark Code: WM2XTP
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Long Description:
ATLANTA WOMEN’S CLUBR
The Atlanta Women’s Club, organized November 11, 1895, was
inspired by a council meeting in Atlanta of the General Federation
of Women’s Clubs during the Cotton States and International
Exposition. Mrs. Rebecca Douglas Lowe was founder and first
president of this Club whose object is "threefold ~ social,
literary and humanitarian". On October 27, 1896, the Atlanta
Woman’s Club was hostess to organized women’s clubs in Georgia to
form the State Federation. Meetings have been held at the home of
the founder, the deGive Opera House, the Club’s first home at 17
Baker Street and the present clubhouse, purchased in 1919 and
extensively enlarged since then.
GHM 060-149A - Georgia Historical Commission -
1956
