Marietta Daisies Garden Club

Field Trip to Berry College

April 20th

9:30am Meet & Greet

9:45am Meeting Promptly Begins

2277 Martha Berry Hwy,

Mt Berry, GA 30149

Speaker: Docent

We will be able to visit the Oakhill Home, the carriage house and Martha Freeman’s cottage.

We will also visit the Martha Berry

Museum and the Oakhill gardens.

Oak Hill Home and Gardens

The Oak Hill home is a Greek Revival mansion built in the 1880s. It was the childhood home of Martha Berry, founder of Berry College, and later became her adult residence. Martha Berry gifted Oak Hill to the schools and the home remains as she left it in the 1930s.

The gardens were added in the 1930s as part of Martha Berry’s renovation of the estate. Landscape architect Robert Cridland designed a collection of gardens and trails that range from our intimate “Goldfish Garden” to the grand “Sunken Garden.” You can access these gardens with grounds-only ticket option or as part of an Oak Hill house tour.

The Martha Berry Museum

The Martha Berry Museum opened in 1972 on the Oak Hill Estate as a complement to the home and as a place to further tell the story of the Berry Schools. The museum has multiple galleries exhibiting the Permanent Collection and Special Exhibitions.