Timeline: The TIMELINE table contains data about significant events in the Garden's history.

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Year 1903

University President Francis Venable appoints Dr. Coker the Director of the Arboretum, and asks him to see what he could do to beautify a 5.5 acre area of boggy, livestock-grazing meadow east of campus. (This and an expanded area become Coker Arboretum).

Event Number: 6
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Last Update: 2017-01-11
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