April 7, 2002

A dedication ceremony was held for Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs (Garland County), a department of the School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County). The mission of the 210-acre botanical garden located on the Lake Hamilton shoreline is to serve as a resource for people desiring to improve their aesthetic, cultural, and scientific knowledge of plants, gardening, architecture, and landscape architecture, within a woodland environment. Although it has progressed into one of Arkansas’s largest tourist attractions both in size and visitation, with more than 125,000 visitors annually, it continues to focus on serving Arkansas’s primary and secondary schools as an educational resource and provide workshop opportunities to adults interested in gardening and landscape design.