Richmond will mark Maggie L. Walker’s 158th birthday this week with several events.

Melvin Jones Jr., president of the Maggie Walker Statue Foundation, will lead the fifth annual ceremony of laying flowers at the base of her statue at Adams and Broad streets at 10 a.m. Friday, July 15, the date on which the celebrated civic leader, banker and nonprofit insurance company executive was born in the city.

Separately, the National Park Service, which operates Mrs. Walker’s home at 1101⁄2 E. Leigh St. as a historic site, will partner with the city and the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia on two events to mark her birthday.

The opening event includes a reception and panel discussion in Mrs. Walker’s honor at the museum, 122 W. Leigh St. Open to the public, the reception is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.

That will be followed by a panel discussion at 6 p.m. at which some of Mrs. Walker’s descendants will discuss the process of creating the statue that was unveiled in July 2017, according to the park service.

On Saturday, July 16, the park service will join the city for a service project in Mrs. Walker’s honor from 9 to 11 a.m. and is seeking volunteers for garden beautification and a sidewalk cleanup in Jackson Ward. Both projects will begin at the visitor’s center and entry to the Walker home, 600 N. 2nd St. Participants may register at handsonrva.org.

Mrs. Walker is best known for her leadership of the Independent Order of St. Luke, a fraternal insurance group. In 1899, she was elected grand secretary, essentially executive director, of the group that was flagging at the time. She rebuilt the membership, led the order into developing a four-story headquarters at Baker and St. James streets in Gilpin Court in 1901 that is now an apartment building, launched the order’s first newspaper in 1902 and then put the order into the banking business in 1903.

Mrs. Walker became the first Black woman to both charter and lead a U.S. bank, which became Consolidated Bank & Trust Co. in 1930 and now has been merged into Ohio-based Peoples Bank.

Details on the events: (804) 226-5041 or www.facebook.com/MaggieL.WalkerNHS.