A Guide to the Lake Drummond Home Demonstration Club (Chesapeake, Va.) Records, 1950-1976 Lake Drummond Home Demonstration Club (Chesapeake, Va.), Records, 1950-1976
51761
A Collection in the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 51761
Library of Virginia
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Lake Drummond Home Demonstration Club Records (Chesapeake, Va.) Records, 1950-1976. Accession 51761. Organization records
collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
In the summer of 1910, Miss Ella G. Agnew was made "State Agent for Girls' Tomato Clubs," by Dr. Seaman A. Knapp (1831-1911),
under the auspices of the General Education Board. Agnew began to work with girls in Halifax and Nottoway Counties who planted
tomatoes, cared for them, and preserved their fruit. Thus, the foundation was laid for home demonstration work in Virginia.
The tomato clubs eventually became known as canning clubs, and enlisted other members of the family and gradually began to
influence other phases of homemaking. In 1914, the Smith-Lever Act was passed by Congress, providing funds for cooperative
extension work in agriculture and home economics. Home demonstration work made a steady growth in Virginia from 1914 to 1917
in the number of agents employed and counties affected, and also in broadening programs. The Lake Drummond Home Demonstration
Club was organized "to foster the highest ideas of home life, and to provide members with the opportunity to work with the
Home Demonstration Agent and the Extenstion Division of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in a city-wide program for the
development and improvement of home and community life, and affiliation with the Virginia Federation of Home Demonstration
Clubs in a state-wide program."
Records, 1950-1976, of the Lake Drummond Home Demonstration Club in Chesapeake, Virginia, including certificates, constitutions
and by-laws, financial reports, membership lists, minutes, program material, reports, scrapbook, and yearbooks.