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City Plants Memorial Trees for Three Remarkable Citizens on Arbor Day
Middletown's tree planting dedication of pin oaks were planted in honor of Bill Pomfret, Fran Patnaude and Conrad Tyaack.
The city's Middletown Urban Forestry Commission and many staffers and citizens celebrated Arbor Day on April 26 at the Wadsworth / Kerste DeBoer Arboretum.
Mayor Daniel T. Drew read an Arbor Day Proclamation, followed by a tree planting dedication of pin oaks planted in honor of Bill Pomfret, Fran Patnaude and Conrad Tyaack.
The Arboretum features Japanese Pagodatree, pin oaks, American beech, maples, flowering dogwoods, Stewartia, London Planetrees and much more.
For 23 years, Middletown has earned the Arbor Day Foundation's Tree City USA designation, which only 17 of the state's 169 municipalities have.
According to the Rockfall Foundation, "Early in the 20th century, with help from the famous Olmsted Brothers firm of landscape architects, Clarence Wadsworth designed and planted the arboretum on Long Lane in Middletown to extend and enhance the approach to his Long Hill estate."
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