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Longwood Gardens has a long, varied history. For thousands of years, the native Lenni Lenape tribe fished its streams, hunted its forests, and planted its fields. Evidence of the tribe's existence is found in quartz spear points that have been discovered on and around the property and can be found on display in the Peirce-du Pont House on the Longwood Gardens property.
The centerpiece of this 1050-acre showplace is Longwood’s elegant conservatory complex, almost five acres under glass.
Longwood Gardens features a simple memorial cross dedicated to Hannah Freeman, continuing a nineteenth-century tradition begun by one of the previous owners of the property, George W. Peirce (1814–1880). [10] Freeman preserved a bean traditionally grown by her Lenape people as part of the Three Sisters companion planting technique. [11]
Officially, the Gardens were The Duke Gardens Foundation, Inc, a 501(c)(3) Private Operating Foundation established 1960. [ 5 ] Miss Duke developed these exotic display gardens in honor of her beloved father James Buchanan Duke , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Inspired by DuPont's Longwood Gardens , each of the eleven Duke Display Gardens is a full-scale re ...
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