Dawes Arboretum has powerful history behind its upcoming. Dawes Arboretum was established in 1929. Beman Dawes bought one hundred forty acres of the Brumback Farm in the Licking Township. The farm was known as “Woodland.” “Beman felt the farm was well situated.”(Dawes Arboretum) His family renamed the farm “Daweswood.” Beman and his wife Bertie Dawes had passed “Their love of nature onto their four sons and daughter,” (Dawes Arboretum) Daweswood was both a retreat and a place to pursue the family's horticultural interests. Daweswood was later renamed Dawes Arboretum in 1929. …show more content…
“The port town that was to come to be Roscoe was laid out in 1816 after a bankrupt merchant bet the rural farmers would rather do business there than have to shell out 25 cents for the ferryboat to coshocton on the heels of that hunch, James Calder set up shop across the Muskingum River and named the spot Caldersburgh after himself. Caldersburgh was renamed Roscoe in 1830 in honor of William Roscoe. There was construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal in the 1820s and Monticello landed August 21, 1830 in Roscoe.”(Roscoe Village) Roscoe was the fourth largest wheat port.
Dawes Arboretum is a major tourist attraction for ohio, it is a place full of people touring it's beautiful property. Dawes Arboretum has eight different landscape as the author list. Glacier Ridge, Red Barn Area, Garden Gateway, Woodlands, Arboretum East, Daweswood, Dawes Lake, and Dutch Fork Wetlands. Also at Dawes Arboretum there is the Daweswood House Museum. Almost two thousand acres to explore at Dawes