HJ47: Commending the Ginter Park Residents’ Association on the occasion of its 100th anniversary
Our representative down at the General Assembly, Jennifer McClellan, is sponsoring a bill to commend the Ginter Park Residents Association on its 100 year anniversary (last year, its inception was 1909). Some quotes from the bill: WHEREAS, Ginter Park was conceived and planned by Major Lewis W. Ginter, a Richmond industrialist and entrepreneur, in the late […]
Our representative down at the General Assembly, Jennifer McClellan, is sponsoring a bill to commend the Ginter Park Residents Association on its 100 year anniversary (last year, its inception was 1909). Some quotes from the bill:
WHEREAS, Ginter Park was conceived and planned by Major Lewis W. Ginter, a Richmond industrialist and entrepreneur, in the late 19th century; and after his death in 1897, Grace Arents, his niece and heiress, carried on his dream of establishing an idyllic, state-of-the-art community in northern Henrico County; and
WHEREAS, rare for neighborhood associations in 1909, the GPRA was unique in allowing female residents over 21 to have equal voting rights in the organization, and some women were property owners and most were involved in education, beautification, and other issues; and
WHEREAS, Ginter Park was incorporated as a town between 1912 and 1914 when it was annexed by the City of Richmond; and
You can read the full text of the bill over on RichmondSunlight.
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