The idea for the Green River Garden, located at the south end of the Museum, took shape in late January of 1990. Douglas Riggs, a member and founder of the Green River Watershed Preservation Alliance, lovingly began the Garden that March. It was built to allow urban residents and visitors a glimpse of the unspoiled beauty of the Green River Valley region. The Green River region includes the Vermont townships of Marlboro, Halifax and Guilford and the Massachusetts townships of Colrain, Leyden and Greenfield.

Riggs designed and built the Garden in order to recreate the flora along a riverbank. He included over 70 different kinds of plants within it. He “happily lavished a lot of interesting work and TLC” onto the Garden until 1997. Today the Garden is tended by volunteers. Any one interested in helping to maintain the Garden please contact us at info@brattleboromuseum.org