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The Arboretum was formerly the estate of John T. (1847-1915) and Lydia T. Morris (1849-1932), a brother and sister who purchased and landscaped much of the arboretum's current site beginning in 1887. John Morris was interested in growing plants from around the world, including those collected in China by E. H. Wilson around 1900, and many of ...
Springfield Mill sits on the Bloomfield Farm tract, [2] which is now part of the Morris Arboretum.It is open to the public once a month for grinding demonstrations. This mill was built in 1854, and is a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, stone-and-frame mill structure that measures thirty-five feet, three inches by forty feet, eight inches.
Renziehausen Park Rose Garden and Arboretum McKeesport 40°20′24.36″N 79°49′26.76″W / 40.3401000°N 79.8241000°W / 40.3401000; -79.8241000
Name Image Affiliation City Coordinates Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Center: Morris County Park Commission Chester Township: Lewis W. Barton Arboretum
Morris Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania Ann Fowler Rhoads (born 1938 [ 1 ] ) is an American botanist who worked as a plant pathologist at Morris Arboretum for 36 years, retiring in 2013. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is the co-founder (with Timothy A. Block) of the Pennsylvania Flora Project of Morris Arboretum. [ 4 ]
The arboretum was established on the site of Whippany Farm, owned by George Griswold Frelinghuysen (1851-1936), son of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, and a New York City patent attorney and president of Ballantine Brewing Company from 1905 until his retirement, and Sara Ballantine (1858-1940) of Newark, New Jersey, granddaughter of the founder ...
Morris County likely followed in the footsteps of other local park commissions. For example, New York City's Central Park Commission was founded in 1856; [ 5 ] the Hudson County Park Commission was created in 1892; [ 6 ] and the Essex County Park Commission was created in 1895.
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