Taylor Memorial Arboretum

Taylor Memorial Arboretum is a 30 acre arboretum and garden. It was established in 1931 by a Chester lawyer, Joshua C. Taylor (1873-1946), in memory of his wife, Anne Rulon Gray. The arboretum includes a grotto (former quarry), millrace and waterfall, and pond with bald cypress. Its collection includes three Pennsylvania State Champion Trees (a giant dogwood, a needle juniper, and a lacebark elm), as well as azaleas, dogwoods, magnolias, junipers, lilacs, viburnums, witch-hazels, Japanese maples, boxwoods, and arborvitae. The site also contains cattails, ferns, irises, mosses, rushes, and wildflowers.