The American Chestnut Foundation
The American Chestnut Foundation
2013 Medal of Honor
Presented to The American Chestnut Foundation for outstanding dedication to the restoration of the American chestnut to our eastern woodlands.
Proposed by: Mill Mountain Garden Club, Zone VII

The Medal of Honor is awarded for outstanding service to horticulture.
The medal was designed in 1920 by sculptor John Flanagan who also designed the U.S. quarter dollar coin, first issued in 1932. The Medal of Honor was endowed in 1963 by the Bedford (New York) Garden Club in memory of their member, Mrs. Arthur Marvin Anderson. Previous winners include Henry Francis DuPont (1956), Judith D. Zuk (2000), and P. Allen Smith (2006).
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