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Category: History

  • A Case for Exploration

    Botanical Gardens, Botany, History, Horticulture, Library and Archives, Plant Exploration, Research
    A Case for Exploration
  • Remembering Stephen Spongberg

    Legacies, Botany, Curation, History, Plant Exploration, Taxonomy
    Remembering Stephen Spongberg
  • Two Friends in Songpen

    History, Legacies, Plant Exploration, Travel
    Two Friends in Songpen
  • Jewel in the Emerald Necklace: The Arnold Arboretum

    History
  • Olmsted and the Arnold Arboretum

    Director’s Posts, Community, History, Landscape
    Olmsted and the Arnold Arboretum
  • Ernest Henry Wilson’s Manuscript Legacy

    Library and Archives, History, Silva
    Ernest Henry Wilson’s Manuscript Legacy
  • The Three Ponds of the Arboretum

    Landscape, History
    The Three Ponds of the Arboretum
  • Four Arboretum Explorers

    Plant Exploration, History
    Four Arboretum Explorers
  • Botanical Thermometers

    Biodiversity, Director’s Posts, History, Horticulture, Living Collections
    Botanical Thermometers
  • Lacebark Pine Dazzles in Winter

    Biodiversity, Botanical Gardens, Botany, Director’s Posts, History, Landscape, Living Collections
    Lacebark Pine Dazzles in Winter
  • E. H. Wilson’s search for Davidia involucrata

    Library and Archives, History, Plant Exploration
    E. H. Wilson’s search for Davidia involucrata
  • The Arboretum’s Long History of Plant Collecting

    Plant Exploration, Conservation, History
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For over 7,000 years, the land on which the Arnold Arboretum now sits has been inhabited and used by diverse societies and cultures of Indigenous Peoples, including most recently, the Massachusett Tribe. Read about the deep history of the Arboretum landscape.

The Arnold Arboretum acknowledges that benefactor Benjamin Bussey, who bequeathed the land on which the institution now is sited, bought the property with funds amassed from trade in goods produced by enslaved persons. Read about the Arboretum and its entanglement with slavery.

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