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JRD squared LbNA #27992

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 10, 2007
Location:
City:Fort Wayne
County:Allen
State:Indiana
Boxes:1
Planted by:redhayers
Found by: flowergirl
Last found:Jun 11, 2012
Status:FFFFFFFOFFFFFFFFFaa
Last edited:Jun 10, 2007
THIS LETTERBOX IS DEDICATED TO MY SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW BECAUSE THEY INTRODUCED US TO LETTERBOXING. SEARCH OUT THIS BOX TO LEARN MORE AND SHARE YOUR LETTERBOXING STORY WITH US...

THE CLUES:
Enter Foster Park’s main entrance just south of Rudisill Blvd on Broadway St. As you enter the park you will see the Foster Gardens just inside the entrance. Take some time and enjoy the many gardens. These gardens are famous for their beautiful tulips in the spring and are popular for weddings throughout the summer and fall. Since JRD squared was given as a wedding gift, what an appropriate place for it to reside. Make your way to the Bridal Glen. Enter through the heart shaped trellis. Enjoy a rest on the bench by the soft pink roses, meander through the garden, or check out the gazebo. When you are done enjoying the beauty of the Bridal Glen, take the wood chip path opposite the heart trellis to the bench you can see just down the aisle. If you were to have your photograph taken while sitting on the bench, (as JRD squared did for their engagement picture), you just might be able to see the letterbox in your photo. While sitting on the bench, look over your shoulder for the large tree directly behind you. Not far from behind this tree, you will see the home of JRD squared.

There is no ink pad in the box, so be advised to bring your own.


Additional information about Foster Park if you are interested….



Foster Park History – (taken from the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation website)

Foster Park was established as a jewel of the Fort Wayne parks system during the first half of the 20th century. Colonel David Foster and his brother Samuel Foster donated funds for the purchase of agricultural land that would become the park in 1912. Over the next several decades, additional land and park features were added to the original narrow strip of green space along the St. Mary’s River. The Foster Park North and South Period Plans (PPN-1949 and PPS-1949), depict the development of the park through 1949. By this time, important features were in place in the park landscape including such popular elements as the Lincoln log cabin (1917), Fort Wayne’s first golf course (1926), the suspended footbridge (1930), the Park Rustic style WPA Pavilion (1938), and Mr. Franklin B. Meade, Sr.'s world flower collection (1946). PPN-1949 and PPS-1949 were created by Heritage Landscapes using sources such as 1949 aerial photographs, dated drawings of the park, and other early photographs and written descriptions. By 1949, the fundamental spatial layout of the park was complete with a variety of recreational options between Park Drive and the river; the golf course in the core of the park, and elaborate flower beds on either side of the park entrance at Broadway Street. This organizational pattern exists today. Although Indian Village Park in the north and the ball fields off Hartman Road to the south resembled their contemporary forms, open agricultural fields existed in the place of West Foster Park. It is interesting to note that in 1949 the current River Greenway trail, Park Drive, was lined with trees and open to vehicles for recreational driving along the river.