Posts Tagged ‘Walter E. Bartlett’

The Happiest Man November 13, 1870   Today is the birthday of the physician, naturalist, and civic leader of the south-central Kansas town of Belle Plaine – Dr. Walter E. Bartlett. In 1910, Walter started the Bartlett Arboretum by purchasing 15 acres of land on the edge of a town called Belle Plaine – about 20…