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2006 THOMAS JEFFERSON WREATH CEREMONY
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Activities Two annual events co-sponsored by the Society and Commission are the Founders' Day Banquet and the Wreath-Laying Ceremony. The Founders' Day Banquet commemorates the establishment of the Parish of Jefferson on February 11, 1825. As the event alternates sides of the river from year to year, the 2007 banquet was held on February 9 at the Chateau Estates Country Club in Kenner. The Thomas Jefferson Wreath Ceremony is held each year in April to celebrate the birth of Thomas Jefferson. It is held at the Jefferson Parish Courthouse in Gretna, where a statue of Mr. Jefferson greets courthouse patrons. |
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| L-r: Dr. Mary Grace Curry, Chairlady of the Jefferson Parish Historical Commission, & Frank J. Borne, Jr., President of the Jefferson Historical Society, cut the anniversary cake at the annual Founders' Day Celebration, which was held in 2008 at Timberlane Country Club in Gretna. | ||
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| Veterans lead the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag at the opening of the annual Thomas Jefferson Wreath Ceremony, April 11, 2003, in the West Bank Council Chambers in the Jefferson Parish Courthouse in Gretna. L-r: Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court Jon A. Gegenheimer, Sr.; Francis T. Moore, Jr., a descendant of Thomas Jefferson; Westwego Councilman and Mayor Pro-Tempore Glenn Green; & Jefferson Historical Society Board members Reginald J. Barrus, C. Lionel Fagot, Jr., Laura J. Swilley, & Capt. Jacques J. Walker, also a descendant of Thomas Jefferson. | ||
