Completed in 1950 amid 20 acres, Holcomb Gardens includes thousands of trees, flowers, shrubs, and other horticultural specimens, as well as a pond waterfalls, a garden house, poets’ corner and philosophers’ bench. A 500-foot-long grass mall leads into the heart of the garden and to the statue of Persephone, who according to Greek mythology was worshipped as the goddess of vegetation. The gardens were designed and laid out by James Irving Holcomb and Arthur Lindberg in 1949.