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Cherry Blossoms of New Jersey
Cherry Blossoms of New Jersey

Here's a little known fact - New Jersey has more cherry trees than Washington D.C. Branch Brook Park has more than 2,700 Japanese cherry blossom trees that burst into full bloom during the annual Cherry Blossom Festival usually in April.

Branch Brook Park is a county park of Essex County, New Jersey, located near Belleville & Newark. The park is noted for the largest collection of cherry blossom trees in the United States, having over 4,300 in more than fourteen different varieties collectively called "Cherryblossomland".

The park was formally created in 1895 by the newly created Essex County Parks Commission, making it the nation's first county park. The famous cherry trees were the result of a 1927 gift from Caroline Bamberger Fuld, sister of department store magnate Louis Bamberger and widow of the store's vice president.

The Cherry Blossom Festival attracts approximately 10,000 visitors each April. Branch Brook Park has been placed on both the New Jersey (1980) and National (1981) Registers of Historic Places.

Sources: www.visitnj.org & www.wikipedia.org

April 19, 2014, Belleville & Newark, New Jersey, taken here

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