Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park

The Alfred B. Maclay State Gardens is a 1,176-section of land (4.76 km2) Florida State Park, professional flowerbed and noteworthy site, situated in Tallahassee, in northeastern Florida. The location is 3540 Thomasville Road.

The nurseries are additionally a U.S. architecturally significant area known as the Killearn Plantation Archeological and Historic District. It got that assignment on August 16, 2002. As indicated by the National Register of Historic Places, it contains 18 noteworthy structures, 4 designs and 4 items.

The property related with Maclay was essential for the Lafayette Land Grant. In before the war times, it was essential for the Andalusia Plantation, developing cotton. Beginning in 1882 a grape plantation on the property created wine, until Leon County casted a ballot to go dry in 1904. After that it was a quail-hunting domain called Lac-Cal.

In 1923, New York agent Alfred Barmore Maclay (1871-1944), the child of Robert Maclay, and his significant other, Louise Fleischman, bought the 1,935 sections of land (783 ha) Lac-Cal quail-hunting manor and abutting land, making a 3,760 sections of land (1,520 ha)- bequest he called Killearn, after his familial town and origin of his incredible granddad in Scotland. Maclay fostered the nurseries constantly until his demise. His significant other proceeded with their turn of events, opened them to the general population in 1946, and in 1953 gave around 307 sections of land (1.24 km2) of their domain, including the nurseries, to an ancestor of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. In 1965 the nurseries were renamed in Maclay’s honor, to keep away from disarray with the new nearby advancement called Killearn Estates.

The foundation of the nursery plantings are azaleas and camellias. Trees incorporate bare cypress, dark gum, cyrilla, dogwood, hickory, holly, Japanese maple, oak, plum, redbud, Liquidambar, and Torreya taxifolia. Different plantings incorporate Ardisia, Aucuba, Zamia integrifolia, Rhododendron chapmanii, Gardenia, ginger, jasmine, Oriental magnolia, mountain tree (Kalmia latifolia), Nandina, palmetto, sago palm, Selaginella, Wisteria, and Yucca filamentosa.

At the front of the nurseries is a Native Plant Arboretum that is kept up with by the Magnolia Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society, which incorporates Piedmont azaleas, Florida fire azaleas, Eastern red columbine, white wild indigo, English dogwood, and Florida anise.