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Wrigley Botanical Gardens

Memorial and garden on Santa Catalina Island

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name	Wrigley Botanical Gardens
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photo_caption	Wrigley Memorial from the front
type	Botanical garden
location	Santa Catalina Island, California
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map_label	Wrigley Botanical Gardens
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area	38 acre
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The Wrigley Memorial & Botanic Garden is a botanic garden on Santa Catalina Island, California, operated by the Catalina Island Conservancy. It also contains a memorial to William Wrigley Jr.

Garden

The botanic garden covers 38 acres (154,000 m2) near the town of Avalon on Catalina, off the shore from Los Angeles, California, US. The garden places a special emphasis on California island endemic plants, i.e., plants that grow naturally on one or more of the Channel Islands of California but nowhere else in the world.

Wrigley memorial

William Wrigley Jr. (1861–1932) bought most of Catalina Island in 1919 with proceeds from his chewing gum empire. When he died on January 26, 1932, at age 70, he was interred near his Catalina home, in a tower in the botanical gardens. The tower stands 130 feet high and is primarily built with local materials. Wrigley's body has been moved to Forest Lawn in Glendale, but his original grave memorial marker still adorns the tower site.

Appearances in popular culture

The botanic gardens were featured by Huell Howser in California's Golden Parks Episode 139.

References

Shirk, Martha. (February 16, 1992). "Getting Away From It All On Santa Catalina Island". [[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]].
(June 14, 2003). "A Catalina Oasis Offers the Mortal and the Vital: Rare plant life is nurtured alongside a memorial to the head of the Wrigley empire". [[Los Angeles Times]].
(April 19, 1934). "Wrigley Memorial Progressing". [[New York Times]].
Purdum, Todd S.. (May 2, 1999). "Weekend Getaways: A Touch of Capri Off Los Angeles". [[New York Times]].
(11 January 2006). "Wrigley Botanical Gardens – California's Golden Parks (139) – Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University".

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