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(1822-1903) Landscape architect, writer of documentary works. Bought, in 1848, a Staten Island farm named The Woods, where he lived and promoted agricultural reform. “Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom” (1861).

Full Name

Frederick Law Olmsted

Locations

Richmond

Author's Timeline

1822

BIRTH

Olmsted was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1822.

1848

OTHER

Bought, in 1848, a Staten Island farm named The Woods, where he lived and promoted agricultural reform.

1861

LITWORK

"Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom"

1903

DEATH

Olmsted moved to Belmont, Massachusetts in 1895 and remained there until his death in 1903.

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