Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon invites visitors to explore its garden and unique horticultural history.  Tours of the historic garden are back by popular demand and will be given on Saturday August 3 and Sunday, August 4 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.  

Visitors will learn about the garden's origins, evolution, and notable gardeners, including Mary Anna Verplanck, who as a precocious eleven-year-old, designed the original 1804 garden, and James F. Brown, an enslaved man who fled Maryland and worked as Mount Gulian’s master gardener.  Visitors will receive a complimentary copy of the garden’s 1912 map and a short film about Mr. Brown, “Cultivating Freedom: From Slave to Citizen”, will be shown. 

Today, notable plantings in the garden include antique peonies, roses, and yuccas that were returned to Mount Gulian in 1995 by a Verplanck descendant who removed them from the site in the 1960’s. After carefully tending to them for thirty years at her home’s garden, she learned of our plans to restore the garden and happily brought them home.    

Reservations are preferred but walk-ins will be accepted if space allows.  For reservations call 845.831.8172 or email at info@mountgulian.org.  Payment may be made day of visit.

For further information see https://dutchesstourism.com/spotlights/great-estates-garden-landscape-tour