500BC A native village later identified by Hugo Reid as Aleupkigna (place of many waters) is established near the natural lake on today’s...

Baldwin Lake is the aesthetic and spatial centerpiece of the Arboretum. The Lake and its surrounding environs provided a central...

Tom McGah’s 1956 grid map, in 200 foot square quadrants, allowed for the recording of every plant on the Arboretum property. Originally...

He was ambitious, hard-working and resented the name “Lucky.” He came from humble, poor pioneer parents in the Ohio wilderness. He always...

Native Americans from the Stone Age Shoshone era, or Aleupkigna/Gabrielinos as they have become known, settled the land that the...

The Adobe is the oldest historic structure at the Arboretum. It is the earthen building beside Baldwin Lake. Most likely it was the site...

In 1833, secularization of the Missions opened vast acreage to private ownership under the new Mexican government’s policy of land...

Eighty years ago, a missionary dispatched from Arcadia Methodist church decided to remain in the war zone during the atrocity of Nanjing...