Aug 30, 2009
The New Jersey State Botanical Garden is a part of Ringwood State Park. The New Jersey State Botanical Garden forms the heartland of a property that Francis Lynde Stetson (1846-1920) assembled from pioneer farmsteads here in the Ramapo Mountains. Stetson named his country estate "Skylands Farms" and maintained a stylish mansion of native granite, a working farm with more than thirty outbuildings, gardens and a vast lawn that also served as a nine-hole golf course. In March 1984, Governor Thomas Kean designated the central 96 acres surrounding the manor house as the State's official botanical garden.
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