You may have noticed the red roses for sale around town on Friday and Saturday. In 2005 the Nazareth Rotary Club began selling these roses as a fundraiser to benefit their own organization and another. This year they selected the newly formed Nazareth Downtown Association.
Donohoe Farms provided the flowers this year, as Nazareth Floral Design and Lynn's Florist have in the past.
The fundraiser is based on the origin of Nazareth, known as the Barony of the Rose, due to a medieval feudal land grant system that King Charles II used when he provided the lands to William Penn. Penn in turn, granted 25,000 acres to his daughter Letitia in 1682.
In 1731 following her father's death, Letitia selected her final 5,000 acres (which would become Nazareth) and using the same land grant system was required to owe her brothers (now responsible for their father's holdings) allegiance which was paid in the form of one red rose on June 24 if requested.
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