24. Missouri Botanical Garden
Grandma would tell you it's called Shaw's Garden, for Henry Shaw, who founded the garden in 1859.
Grandma would tell you it's called Shaw's Garden, for Henry Shaw, who founded the garden in 1859.
*Shaw’s business success provided him with a substantial fortune and allowed him to retire in 1840 at the age of 39. His eventual holdings of about 1,000 acres included the land he had seen his first year in St. Louis. In 1851 Shaw began development of the property surrounding his country home, inspired to give the people of St. Louis a garden like the great gardens and estates of Europe. The news that Henry Shaw was building a botanical garden reached Dr. George Engelmann, a German physician-botanist who had come to the U.S. several decades earlier. Engelmann, one of the great early American botanists, suggested that the garden be more than a public park, that it become involved with scientific work like the great botanical institutions of Europe. Engelmann persuaded Shaw to include a herbarium (collection of botanical specimens) and a library in his garden. Shaw in turn encouraged Engelmann to buy specimens and books in Europe.
The Missouri Botanical Garden opened to the public in 1859 and began to grow in the European tradition of horticultural display combined with education and the search for new knowledge. Today, 154 years after opening, the Missouri Botanical Garden is a National Historic Landmark and a center for science and conservation, education and horticultural display.*
*This info copied from: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/about/additional-information/our-mission-history.aspx
Their website also features an interactive timeline with photos.
The Missouri Botanical Garden opened to the public in 1859 and began to grow in the European tradition of horticultural display combined with education and the search for new knowledge. Today, 154 years after opening, the Missouri Botanical Garden is a National Historic Landmark and a center for science and conservation, education and horticultural display.*
*This info copied from: http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/about/additional-information/our-mission-history.aspx
Their website also features an interactive timeline with photos.
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