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From Private Estate to Historic Public Woodland

Location

Off Campus

Date & Time

September 27, 2021, 10:00 am12:00 pm

Description

Enjoy a walk of the historic Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park with Ed and Jo Orser.  Visit the chapel and other historic structures of the pastoral estate of mid-19th-century railroad builder Thomas Winans.  Then enjoy a short hike into the woodlands of one of the largest forest parks in an East Coast city, which was acquired by Baltimore’s public park system in the 1940s. [Rain date 9/28]