Title : West Virginia Botanic Garden
link : West Virginia Botanic Garden
West Virginia Botanic Garden
Tibbs Run Reservoir supplied clean drinking water to Morgantown, West Virginia from 1912 until 1969 when upgrades in the water system meant the small pond was no longer needed. Locals came to have fun fishing, swimming, and picnicking until city drained the pond in 1980. The land has been leased the garden, which is a work in progress, since1999. Most of the planned gardens are located in a small area near the lower parking lot. The rest of the garden has been left natural - a mixed deciduous, hemlock, and rhododendron forest; and wetlands created when the pond was drained.