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:

bq. 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

bq. WHEREAS, rare for neighborhood associations in 1909, the GPRA was unique in “allowing female residents over 21 to have equal voting rights”:http://northrichmondnews.com/news/2009/12/17/100-years-ago-female-suffrage-in-ginter-park/ in the organization, and some women were property owners and most were involved in education, beautification, and other issues; and

bq. 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”:http://www.richmondsunlight.com/bill/2010/hj47/fulltext/.