{"id":9494,"date":"2020-05-18T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidesuburbia.com\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T22:50:21","slug":"tyler-rose-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidesuburbia.com\/discover-dallas\/tyler-rose-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother’s Day outing to the Tyler Rose Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As an early Mother’s Day outing we drove to Tyler Rose Garden located about 90 miles from Dallas to stop and smell the roses<\/em>. Tyler is a city in eastern Texas known for its rose cultivation and is home to the nation’s largest public rose garden. This quaint town is known as the official Rose Capital of America. About one-third of all commercially-grown rose bushes in America are produced in a 50-mile radius around Tyler. Thousands of roses in shades of yellow, pink and mauve were blooming on the well manicured grounds of the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The roots of Tyler extend deep beyond the beds of roses. It begins with the Caddo Indians who settled in these pineland hills centuries before Spanish and American explorers. In 1845, when Texas became the 28th state in the Union the Texas Legislature formed Smith County and established a county government. They picked a site and named it for U. S. President John Tyler who was a strong proponent for Texas’ annexation. After a small log courthouse was built on the Town Square of Tyler, several businesses began to line the streets leading to incorporation in 1850 with a population of 276.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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