Sep 13, 2022
Festivals, Pageants, and Tours
In 1938 the first daffodil tour was proposed jointly by the Gloucester Rotary Club and the Gazette-Journal. The Gloucester board of...
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The Slow Decline
World War II briefly cut off the supply of foreign bulbs, restricted transportation, and severely limited the labor force, but after the...
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The Peak Years
Until 1926 Dutch bulbs dominated the eastern market, other than in Baltimore. It was in that year the biggest boost came to the Virginia...
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Sep 13, 2022
Early Entrepreneurs
Everyone had daffodils but no one thought much about them except as wild ornaments. It was around 1890 that Eleanor Linthicum Smith, of...
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The Daffodils Arrive
The history of the daffodil in Gloucester County, Virginia is almost as old as the county itself. When Gloucester was formed in 1651 from...
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