Скачать или смотреть Starry Family Adventures | Elizabeth Park Rose Garden & M Twain House | Trip 8, Day 18: Connecticut

🌹 "Elizabeth Park is on the national register of historic places. Elizabeth Park offers just over one hundred acres of formal gardens, green space, walking loops...

The Helen S Kaman Rose Garden is the center of Elizabeth Park. It is the first municipal rose garden in the United States and the third largest rose garden in the country today. Theodore Wirth designed the rose garden & it opened in 1904.

There are over 15,000 rose bushes and 800 varieties of old and new roses in the garden. The gazebo was built in 1904 & reconstructed in 2005.

The Rose Garden is a popular place for weddings and wedding photos. It is estimated that 15-20 weddings take place each weekend in peak season. Mr. Wirth wanted a rose garden because, “Roses bring joy to the public.” "🌹(Copied from elizabethparkct.org)

Soooooo beautiful & 💵 FREE!!!

Next, we headed over to the Mark Twain House & Museum, also in Hartford, CT!

"The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author’s Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. In addition to providing tours of Twain’s restored home, a National Historic Landmark, the institution offers activities and educational programs that illuminate Twain’s literary legacy and provide information about his life and times."
(Copied from marktwainhouse.org)

💵Adults $21, Kids (6-16) $11

We chose to not do the tour & just snap a house pic! 😜📸🏡