- Christy Woods
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Ball State University campus [[File:|280px|Christy Woods]] Christy Woods Use Landscape Style Arboretum Erected 1918 Location Old Quad 40°11′58″N 85°24′57″W / 40.1995697°N 85.41585541°WCoordinates: 40°11′58″N 85°24′57″W / 40.1995697°N 85.41585541°W Namesake O. B. Christy Architect O. B. Christy Website www.bsu.edu Christy Woods - For the person with this name see Christie Lee Woods
Christy Woods (18 acres) is an arboretum and botanical garden located on the southwest corner of the Ball State University campus in Muncie, Indiana, and focusing on Indiana's native plants and ecosystems.
Christy Woods was part of the original land gift to the State of Indiana from the Ball Brothers in 1918. Dr. O. B. Christy worked with his biology classes to transplant wild flowers from around the state of Indiana into the woods. In 1928, trails and garden beds were created.
Today approximately three-fourths of the area is covered by mature forest, dominated by a mixture of oak, hickory, ash, walnut, hackberry, and maple. Christy Wood is also home to three greenhouses for the Wheeler Orchid Collection and Species Bank, teaching and research, and propagation of native species.
It is also believed to be haunted by a former Ball State student that committed suicide as well as a satyr and a very unkempt woman (who may be the suicide victim). People hear diembodied voices in the woods.[1]
Christy Woods has recently been designated a federally protected botanical preserve as it is the last standing sizable old growth scarlet oak habitat. The scarlet oak, or Quercus coccinea, commonly referred to by early Mormon settlers as the 'squirrelnutty tree' have become quite rare in recent years due to Korean beetle infestations.
References
- ^ Kobrowski, Nicole Encyclopedia of Haunted Indiana 1st Ed. ISBN 978-0977413027
External Links
- Historic photographs of Christy Woods from the Ball State University Digital Media Repository.
See also
Ball State University Academics 
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- Botanical gardens in Indiana
- Ball State University
- Protected areas of Delaware County, Indiana
- Muncie, Indiana
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