As it observes its 90th anniversary, the Garden Club of Gloucester has announced a gift of $6,000 for a fountain for the County’s planned pocket park on the Court Circle on the old Tucker Store site.

The club held an anniversary luncheon on Oct. 24 at White Hall, home of Mari Ann Banks. A longtime member, Banks said, “I am delighted to host the event to celebrate the anniversary and the many contributions of the Garden Club to our community.” The club was founded in 1928 at Goshen on the Ware River by Maude Mackubin, Nina Sanders, and Elizabeth Taliaferro.

In presenting Carole Steele, assistant county administrator, with the gift, club president Anne Marshall noted, “From the club’s first large project in the 1930s of raising funds and building a brick wall around the courthouse circle and landscaping the circle, to plantings around the county, to maintaining the flower boxes at Route 14 and Main Street, to clean-up projects, to holiday decorations on Ma...