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Cherry Blossom Festival
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Cherry Blossom Festival
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Resource Protection

Please do not pick the blossoms.  Picking the blossoms or branches of the historic trees is very damaging.  Please respect the park and leave the blossoms for the next generation to enjoy too.

Burning of the Cherry Trees  

Did You Know?
The original gift of Cherry Trees from Japan in 1910 had to be destroyed due to disease and infestation. There was an additional gift made two years later that became the basis for the trees we still have today.
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Last Updated: March 05, 2009 at 11:22 EST