Dawes Arboretum - Newark, Ohio
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N 39° 58.130 W 082° 25.090
17S E 378888 N 4425260
Dawes Arboretum has over 5000 types of woody plants.
Waymark Code: WM11YKD
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 01/12/2020
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"It was Beman Dawes’ aim to inspire people to plant trees. He planted trees at Daweswood, striving to obtain specimens from all over the world that would survive in central Ohio. The first planned tree planting began in 1917 with 50 sugar maples.
By the time The Dawes Arboretum was founded in 1929, over 50,000 trees had been planted and the grounds had doubled in size to 293 acres. Beman and Bertie Dawes created The Arboretum as a private foundation: “To encourage the planting of forest and ornamental trees … to give pleasure to the public and education to the youth.”"