Historic Preservation/Restoration

Field Session

FS-005 - Discover Bartram’s Garden and Bartram’s Mile Along the Schuylkill River Trail

3.5 PDH, LA CES/HSW, FL, NY/HSW

Field Session Leader(s)

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  Brad Thornton, ASLA

  Senior Associate
  Ground Reconsidered

Field Session Co-Leader(s)

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  Jason Curtis, ASLA, SITES AP

  Associate
  Andropogon Associates

Field Session Presenter(s)

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  José Almiñana, FASLA, SITES AP

  Principal
  Andropogon Associates
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  Joel Fry

  Curator
  John Bartram Association
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  Tamara Henry

  Landscape Architect
  Ground Reconsidered

Experience Bartram’s Garden and the Bartram’s Mile section of the Schuylkill River Trail. Take a walk along the Schuylkill riverfront that has been reclaimed from its industrial past and admire living collections at Bartram’s Garden that continue to grow, bloom, and reproduce as they have since 1728.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the planning, design, documentation and implementation process for creating a multi-use trail through a previously industrial use landscape, including public art and restoration of historic monuments.
• Learn about the history of a one of America’s most important historic botanic gardens.
• Learn about planning, design, documentation and implementation process for a 19th-century garden restoration at a historic garden in an urban setting.
• Learn about multi-use trail stormwater management techniques, urban meadows, a community farm, and creation of a tidal wetland.