Juneteenth features free admission at Missouri Botanical Garden
The Missouri Botanical Garden will offer free admission to all visitors on Sunday, June 19 in honor of Juneteenth. Visitors can spend a restful and restorative day in the Garden and partake in special activities planned for the day.
January 10, 1864
Probable birth date of George Washington Carver in Diamond, MO. This scientist probably saved the economy of the south with his concept of crop rotation and the hundreds of new products he developed from legumes.
October 8, 1896
Missouri-born George Washington Carver taught his first class at Tuskegee Institute on this date.