Bartram's Garden

Bartram 's Garden in Philadelphia is the oldest surviving botanic garden in North America. Also at the complex there is an eight -acre Arboretum and John Bartram House, where lived the same founder. The house is fully preserved is a National Historic Landmark.

History

Bartram 's Garden was laid out from 1728 by the Quaker John Bartram. He was a botanist and Benjamin Franklin co-founder of the American Philosophical Society. John Bartram lived in the third generation in the Thirteen Colonies and bought the 102 -acre, situated on the Schuylkill River Land Swedish settlers from. He planted a garden with a diverse selection of native flora and built the today preserved in its original state John Bartram House. This was until 1770 a kitchen and a new front facade. The greenhouse was built in 1760 as the house and garden will receive. Business lists from London show from the 1750s an international trade in plants from Bartram 's Garden after. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington appreciated this place as a recreation center.

Three generations of Bartram, including to fame came as a botanist and writer William Bartram, led away the botanical garden over 125 years. Under Ann Bartram Carr, a niece of William Bartram, Bartram 's Garden was enlarged and had at the height of ten greenhouses, and 1400 different native and exotic plant varieties in 1000. 1850 had to be sold for financial reasons to Andrew Eastwick the estate.

Eastwick, a wealthy railroad industrialist, was given the botanical garden as a private possession. After his death in 1879 was jeopardized Bartram 's Garden by the expanding city and industrialization. 1891 was able to purchase through fundraising campaigns by Thomas Meehan and Charles Sargent, Land and homes the city of Philadelphia, much support. 1893 was founded by the descendants of John Bartram's a society to care and receipt of Bartram 's Garden, the John Bartram Association. This ensures up today for maintenance and management of Bartram 's Garden.

Since October 9, 1960 John Bartram House is a National Historic Landmark. On October 15, 1966, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.