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Boerner Botanical Gardens

History
The Boerner Botanical Gardens were founded by three men that each played a role is developing the gardens. These men were, Charles B. Whitnall, who founded the Milwaukee County Park System, Alfred Boerner, who was responsible for the design and architechture of the gardens, and John Voight, who was the director of the Boerner Botanical Gardens for 38 years.

The land that is now the Boerner Botanical Gardens was purchased between 1929 and 1930 for $327 an acre leaving Milwaukee County with little money to start the development of the park. Employment programs implemented during the Great Depression, are what began the construction of the gardens when people seeking employment found it developing the gardens though federally funded programs. These programs included, the Civilian Conservations Corps (CCC) which went to the gardens in 1933 and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) who went to the gardens in 1935.