Early Historical Highlights

-
1896
College Park Study Club founded with 15 members.
-
1906
Chartered in 1906 as the College Park Woman's Club. First club in Georgia to make a contribution to the Tallulah Falls School.
-
1913
With 73 members, offered a Cox College scholarship to a College Park girl; Floral Committee of the club distributed flowers to the YWCA, Old Ladies' Home, Cox College, the Martha Home and 2,000 white pinks (carnations) to all the churches on Mother's Day; Supplied flowers for decorations on soldiers' graves.
-
1914
$225.00 raised to pay the yearly salary of the College Park Cemetery sexton.
-
1919
Sponsored entertainment at Fort McPherson and Camp Gordon.
-
1922
Planted Road of Remembrance, 300 crepe myrtles and dogwoods along railway right of way.
-
1927
Construction completed on Camellia Hall, building that serves as the gathering place of the College Park Woman's Club.
-
1930
Sponsored a community Thanksgiving Service, which now is the oldest continuous service in the country.
-
1942-45
38,818 surgical dressings produced by club members for US military; 290 knitted items; 1,935 volunteer hours to American Red Cross.
-
1946
Membership was 205; Established fund to purchase medicine for needy and orphaned children and pay for visiting nurses when needed.
-
1949
First woman's club in Georgia to donate to Cerebral Palsy Society of Georgia; Worked to establish College Park Public Library.