From the Archives #27: Squeaky Clean

This photo and the accompanying caption were originally posted to our Facebook page (link to external site) on May 5, 2023.

While the first statewide Green Up Day was held in 1970, St. Albans had the idea of a "city housecleaning" 60 years earlier! This event appears to have been a great success, with a Messenger article published the day of (May 6th, 1910) proclaiming that "it will be a bold man in any neighborhood [...] that dares defy the pride of his neighbors by permitting his [property] to become a public nuisance and mar the beauty of this naturally lovely little city."