SnoGirl - replanted LbNA #31058 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 20, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Indian Hill |
| County: | Hamilton |
| State: | Ohio |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Lindsays Snowman  |
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| Found by: | Elder1983 |
| Last found: | Sep 22, 2007 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | May 20, 2007 |
SnoGirl – replanted
SnoGirl was originally planted in Dale Park in Mariemont, OH but the tree where she resided was chopped down in May 2007!!
She now has been moved to the Rowe Arboretum. I have lived within a few miles of this lovely site for over 20 years and never knew it existed until today. I was driving around looking for a park to replant SnoGirl and saw the sign to the arboretum. The sign looks like a street sign and I wasn’t sure if this was just a subdivision or a real arboretum. I was amazed to find such a special place.
Take Columbia Parkway (Highway 50) east from downtown Cincinnati, through Mariemont. Immediately after Krogers on your right is Walton Creek. Turn left at the light. Go about three blocks to the stop sign. Bear left on Muchmore Road. Continue up the road until you see the sign for Rowe Arboretum. Turn right and continue on up the hill. When you see a very large white house on your right, the arboretum will be on your left. You will have to wait until the electric gate opens. Continue on the arboretum road until you arrive at the parking lot.
The park is open from dawn to dusk.
From the brochure for the Rowe Arboretum:
“The arboretum was founded by Stanley M. Rowe, Sr. and his wife Dorothy Snowden Rowe in 1926. It was then that they decided to start collecting trees and shrubs to reforest this ridge which was previously used for farming and pasture. The first project consisted of planting a few thousand seedlings from the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Forestry….”
“The Rowe’s home at the south end of the arboretum was built between 1926 and 1928. It is now a private residence. The Village of Indian Hill sold it, plus four acres, to create the endowment fund for the arboretum.”
Clue to find the letterbox:
Take the brick path toward the right side of the building near the parking lot. Stop at the middle of the circle and turn right. Take a gravel path and cross over a very tiny stream. At the major gravel path, turn left. But first admire the metal “hitching post” (I am not sure that this is what this really is but it is interesting) that was manufactured by M. Dyer Elmira, NY. Continue on the major gravel path until you get to 4 steps on your right leading to a piece of petrified wood and a very large cross section of a tree. If you read the metal tags on both the right and left posts they will describe what you are looking at.
“Redwood tree born approximately 723 AD. “Sister slice” to specimen at Cincinnati Natural History Museum.”
“Petrified log. Originally a pine tree. From west side of the Grand Canyon”
“Triassic Period, late 185-225 million years ago”
Continue on the major gravel path and turn right at the intersection. Continue on past a bench on your right. Continue past the Dorothy Rowe meadow on your right (marked on metal tag on a post near a tree). Continue past several bird feeders on your right until you arrive at a large tree on your left. This tree has had part of its trunk split open and has a large branch that has fallen down propped against it. There is a path immediately after this tree that goes down the hill. Look inside the truck for what you seek. Please hide it well.
You have gone too far if you see a metal hitching post on your left with a sign pointing away from you attached to it.
SnoGirl was originally planted in Dale Park in Mariemont, OH but the tree where she resided was chopped down in May 2007!!
She now has been moved to the Rowe Arboretum. I have lived within a few miles of this lovely site for over 20 years and never knew it existed until today. I was driving around looking for a park to replant SnoGirl and saw the sign to the arboretum. The sign looks like a street sign and I wasn’t sure if this was just a subdivision or a real arboretum. I was amazed to find such a special place.
Take Columbia Parkway (Highway 50) east from downtown Cincinnati, through Mariemont. Immediately after Krogers on your right is Walton Creek. Turn left at the light. Go about three blocks to the stop sign. Bear left on Muchmore Road. Continue up the road until you see the sign for Rowe Arboretum. Turn right and continue on up the hill. When you see a very large white house on your right, the arboretum will be on your left. You will have to wait until the electric gate opens. Continue on the arboretum road until you arrive at the parking lot.
The park is open from dawn to dusk.
From the brochure for the Rowe Arboretum:
“The arboretum was founded by Stanley M. Rowe, Sr. and his wife Dorothy Snowden Rowe in 1926. It was then that they decided to start collecting trees and shrubs to reforest this ridge which was previously used for farming and pasture. The first project consisted of planting a few thousand seedlings from the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Forestry….”
“The Rowe’s home at the south end of the arboretum was built between 1926 and 1928. It is now a private residence. The Village of Indian Hill sold it, plus four acres, to create the endowment fund for the arboretum.”
Clue to find the letterbox:
Take the brick path toward the right side of the building near the parking lot. Stop at the middle of the circle and turn right. Take a gravel path and cross over a very tiny stream. At the major gravel path, turn left. But first admire the metal “hitching post” (I am not sure that this is what this really is but it is interesting) that was manufactured by M. Dyer Elmira, NY. Continue on the major gravel path until you get to 4 steps on your right leading to a piece of petrified wood and a very large cross section of a tree. If you read the metal tags on both the right and left posts they will describe what you are looking at.
“Redwood tree born approximately 723 AD. “Sister slice” to specimen at Cincinnati Natural History Museum.”
“Petrified log. Originally a pine tree. From west side of the Grand Canyon”
“Triassic Period, late 185-225 million years ago”
Continue on the major gravel path and turn right at the intersection. Continue on past a bench on your right. Continue past the Dorothy Rowe meadow on your right (marked on metal tag on a post near a tree). Continue past several bird feeders on your right until you arrive at a large tree on your left. This tree has had part of its trunk split open and has a large branch that has fallen down propped against it. There is a path immediately after this tree that goes down the hill. Look inside the truck for what you seek. Please hide it well.
You have gone too far if you see a metal hitching post on your left with a sign pointing away from you attached to it.