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Tour Interpretation (For use by guides and hostesses interpreting
exhibit buildings to visitors)
Primary Objectives :
0 To acquaint visitors with 18th and 19th century Salem
yards and gardens.
To highlight key landscape features around museum
buildings in Old Salem.
(Interpretive highlights and primary landscape features for each
historic building operated by Old Salem, Inc. are outlined in the
following pages. Key words are underlined. Refer to Appendices
for more specific information on specific plants.)
A. Miksch Lot
Interpretive Hiqhlight: Horticulture at its earliest period
in the Wachovia tract, 1753-1766.
1, Describe the characteristic layout
Shop', yard, and gardens.
of the Miksch Tobacco
a. Tobacco Shop and residence built directly on the street
without a front yard
b. Service yard of swept dirt enclosed behind the house -
includes the Miksch Manufactory
c. Gardens and orchards cultivated to the rear of the
service yard
2. Explain that gardens in the Miksch and Triebel lots are
inspired by descriptions, drawings, and inventories of
early Bethabara gardens.
a. Garden
1) Design of the re-created Miksch garden is based on
the 1761 plan of the Medical Garden (Hortus Medicus)
at Bethabara
2) Garden is reflection of medieval botanical and physic
gardens; it is not solely an herb garden
3) One medicinal plant grown in each rectangular,
triangular, or circular bed in garden
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