Welkinweir

Welkinweir (197 acres) is a nonprofit arboretum, garden, mansion, and conservation area located at 1368 Prizer Road, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. It is open to the public daily without charge.

Welkinweir was the home of Everett and Grace Rodebaugh, founding members of the conservation-minded Green Valleys Association, who bought the site in the 1930s and spent decades improving it. It was placed into a conservation easement in 1976, donated to the association in 1997, and is now its headquarters and educational center. In 2001 the estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Its arboretum includes cherry, dogwood, dwarf evergreens, franklinia, magnolia, Japanese maple, swamp and sugar maple, and sweetgum, as well as azaleas and rhododendrons.

See also

* List of botanical gardens in the United States

External links

* [http://www.greenvalleys.org/welkinweir.asp Green Valleys Association - Welkinweir]