THE TRUSTEES' GARDEN
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N 32° 04.701 W 081° 05.019
17S E 492105 N 3549123
THE TRUSTEES' GARDEN
Located in the Pirate's House Resturant Parking lot, Bay and East Broad Streets, Savannah, Ga.
Waymark Code: WMWDJ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/25/2006
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At this site was located the first public agricultural experimental garden in America. From this garden was disseminated the upland cotton which later comprised the greater part of the world's cotton commerce. Here were propagated and from this garden distributed, the peach trees which gave Georgia and South Carolina another major commercial crop.
The garden consisted of ten acres. It was established by Oglethorpe within one month after settlement of Georgia. Botanists were sent by the Trustees of the Colony from England to the West Indies and South America to procure plants for the garden. Vine cuttings, flax, hemp, potashes, indigo, cochineal, olives, and medicinal herbs were grown. The greatest hope was centered in the Mulberry trees, essential to silk culture. In the early days of the Colony, Queen Caroline was clothed in Georgia silk, and the town's largest structure was the filature.
The silk and wine industries failed to materialize. The distant sponsors were unable to judge of the immense importance of the experiments conducted in other products. In 1755 the site was developed as a residential section.
025-2 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1952
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 025-2
Date: 1952
Sponsor: Ga hist com
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