Tyler Rose

The garden honors the rose town of Tyler and its festival. The first Texas Rose Festival was organized in October 1933 by the women of the Tyler Garden Club, the chamber of commerce and local rose growers; volunteers raised $1,500, and several thousand people came from fifteen states. Margaret Copland of Tyler was the first Rose Queen. First called the East Texas Rose Festival, it took its present name during the 1936 Centennial. It paused during World War II, and in 1989 about 100,000 people attended, with thirteen floats and a budget of $250,000.

What the plaque says

Tyler Rose The Tyler Rose developed from a "native" rose planted by Cherokee Indians to mark tribal trails in the early 1800's. The rose developed a hardy root system now grafted to create classic hybrids. These roses are shipped by nurserymen all over the world. The beauty of the Tyler Rose is an example of what happens when God and man work together. (1969)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Capitol — steps away
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.
• Bullock Texas State History Museum — 0.3 mi
  The state's history museum at the head of Congress Avenue, built around the hull of La Salle's ship La Belle, raised from Matagorda Bay with 1.8 million artifacts.
• Harry Ransom Center — 0.6 mi
  The University of Texas archive where a Gutenberg Bible and the earliest surviving camera photograph are always on view, free, beside the papers of Watergate and the movies.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.8 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.

More markers nearby

• Confederate Texas Legislatures — steps away
• State Bar of Texas — steps away
• Price Daniel — steps away
• First United Methodist Church of Austin — steps away