Some memorable dates for the Garden Club of Forest Hills:
• 1923: The club was formed with a dozen women who called it the East Edgewood Acres Garden Unit. The group changed to its present name in 1938.
• 1933: The club joined the Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania.
• 1934: A delegation of members petitioned Forest Hills Borough Council to acquire land that became Forest Hills Park. Council bought the 26-acre tract for $25,000.
• 1936: In July, the club received a letter from council authorizing the garden club to assume the responsibility of planning and landscaping the park. In November, the club hired landscape architect Ezra C. Stiles to plan the park.
• 1942: Activities were directed toward the war effort, and victory gardens were planted. Trees and money were donated toward the construction of a Blue Star Memorial Highway marker and plantings located at the Irwin exit of the Pennsylvania Turnpike commemorating members of the U.S. military.
• 1949: Blueprints were drawn for a landscape design for the Forest Hills Junior High School by landscape architect Ralph E. Griswold; club members bought and planted trees and shrubs.
• 1982: The club was awarded the Hunt Trophy by the Pittsburgh Civic Garden Center for outstanding and exceptional community service activities.
• 1990: Since the white flowering dogwood is the club flower, then-club president Barbara Momo started the Dogwood Award. A dogwood pin is given each year to a club member who goes above and beyond club duties.
• 1991: The club was again awarded the Hunt Trophy.
• 1993: Members cleaned a hillside inside the entrance to the Forest Hills Park and started the Hillside Garden, which members have taken care of ever since.
• 2008: The club received a Community Greening Award from the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society.
• 2012: The club donated $1,968 to organizations in the Pittsburgh community, such as the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and the National Aviary, Forest Hills emergency service providers and state scholarships.
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