# Seeking Eden: A Collection of Georgia's Historic Gardens - Hardcover

by **Staci L. Catron** (Author), **Mary Ann Eaddy** (Author), **James R. Lockhart** (Photographer)

_Seeking Eden_ promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia's rich garden heritage. Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly thirty designed landscapes first identified in the early twentieth-century publication _Garden History of Georgia, 1733-1933_. _Seeking Eden_ records each garden's evolution and history as well as each garden's current early twenty-first-century appearance, as beautifully documented in photographs. Dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, these publicly and privately owned gardens include nineteenth-century parterres, Colonial Revival gardens, Country Place-era landscapes, rock gardens, historic town squares, college campuses, and an urban conservation garden.

_Seeking Eden_ explores the significant impact of the women who envisioned and nurtured many of these special places; the role of professional designers, including J. Neel Reid, Philip Trammel Shutze, William C. Pauley, Robert B. Cridland, the Olmsted Brothers, Hubert Bond Owens, and Clermont Lee; and the influence of the garden club movement in Georgia in the early twentieth century.

**FEATURED GARDENS:**  
Andrew Low House and Garden Savannah  
Ashland Farm Flintstone  
Barnsley Gardens Adairsville  
Barrington Hall and Bulloch Hall Roswell  
Battersby-Hartridge Garden Savannah  
Beech Haven Athens  
Berry College: Oak Hill and House o' Dreams Mount Berry  
Bradley Olmsted Garden Columbus  
Cator Woolford Gardens Atlanta  
Coffin-Reynolds Mansion Sapelo Island  
Dunaway Gardens Newnan vicinity  
Governor's Mansion Atlanta  
Hills and Dales Estate LaGrange  
Lullwater Conservation Garden Atlanta  
Millpond Plantation Thomasville vicinity  
Oakton Marietta  
Rock City Gardens Lookout Mountain  
Salubrity Hall Augusta  
Savannah Squares Savannah  
Stephenson-Adams-Land Garden Atlanta  
Swan House Atlanta  
University of Georgia: North Campus, the President's House and Garden, and the Founders Memorial Garden Athens  
Valley View Cartersville vicinity  
Wormsloe and Wormsloe State Historic Site Savannah vicinity  
Zahner-Slick Garden Atlanta

### Author Biography

**Staci L. Catron (Author)**  
STACI L. CATRON is the director of the Cherokee Garden Library, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, and a past president of the Southern Garden History Society.

**Mary Ann Eaddy (Author)**  
MARY ANN EADDY retired from the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources where she worked first as manager of the technical services unit and then as special assistant to the director. She also taught a graduate course in preservation planning in the Heritage Preservation Program at Georgia State University.

**Number of Pages:** 488

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 12.3 x 10.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** April 15, 2018

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