Dawes Arboretum
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| Location | Newark, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 39°58′44″N 82°25′01″W / 39.979027°N 82.417055°WCoordinates: 39°58′44″N 82°25′01″W / 39.979027°N 82.417055°W |
| Area | 1,910 acres |
| Created | June 1, 1929 |
| Visitors | 267,000 |
| Open | All year (except New Year's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas) |
| Plants | 16,828 |
| Website | www.dawesarb.org |
The Dawes Arboretum is a non-profit arboretum located 30 miles east of Columbus in Newark, Ohio. The Dawes Arboretum has nearly 2,000 acres (8 km2) of plant collections, gardens and natural areas. Twelve miles (19 km) of hiking trails and a four-mile (6 km) auto tour allow guests to explore the arboretum's natural beauty.
Founded in 1929 by Beman and Bertie Dawes, The Dawes Arboretum is dedicated to increasing the love and knowledge of trees, history and the natural world. Today, The Arboretum continues its founders mission in a variety of ways including education, conservation, research and maintaining plant collections for the public to enjoy. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The Arboretum features plants tolerant of central Ohio's climate. As of December 2004, its plant records database tracks 21,490 plants, of which 16,488 are planted on the grounds. (2,829 of those individuals are wild of known origin.) These records represent 5,701 individual plant names (taxa) of which 4,635 are planted on the grounds. The taxa represent 234 genera, 63 families, and 1741 species, hybrids or infraspecific names. 6,260 of those names are verified by taxonomic descriptions. The herbarium consists of 838 vouchers.
Major collections include the following, with counts current as of December 2004:
An interactive catalog of specimens at The Dawes Arboretum is available here.
A number of well-known people have dedicated trees at the Arboretum, including explorers Richard E. Byrd and Lincoln Ellsworth; sports figures Red Grange, Gene Tunney, Bobby Jones, and Jesse Owens; Admiral William Halsey, Admiral Ernest King, and General John Pershing; and others including Buckminster Fuller, John Glenn, Osa Johnson, Fritz Kreisler, Wiley Post, and Orville Wright.
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