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Nathan Franklin Barrett
The Town Planner Today is the birthday of the Landscape Architect Nathan Franklin Barrett, who was born on this day in 1845. Instead of joining his father’s dye company, Barrett went his own way. After serving in the Civil War, Barrett learned about plants by working in his brother’s nursery. In 1866, the field of…
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Today we celebrate the co-founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a man who maximized his small space garden about 130 years before the rest of us. We’ll learn about the man who came to America to work with Andrew Jackson Downing, and then they both ended up dying by drowning 43 years…
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