Historic Gardens

In the shelter of the trees around the Backcountry Patriot Statue and along the stream are gardens featuring plants used by American Indians and early settlers for medicine, in worship and for food. Brochures available in the gardens identify and explain the uses of these plants. 

Behind the Hezekiah Alexander House is a colonial-style herb garden. This beautiful arrangement of flowering and foliage plants would have provided culinary seasoning, pest control and medicines to the colonists. Your tour guide can explain what these plants are and how they were used.