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Shelf number: 16577.

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Accompanying caption on back: "The Lake Hall Picnic Area in Killearn Gardens State Park is open all year around. It is a beautiful spot for picnics. A small area is set aside for swimming but lifeguard service is not provided. A boat launching ramp has been installed. A ski course is laid out. Boating is popular. A small arm of the Lake is reserved for fishermen. A picnic shelter and restroom is provided. The Garden Area is open only from October 15 until June 1. Six miles north of Tallahassee."

Killearn Plantation and Gardens (later Maclay Gardens) were planted and designed by Alfred Barmore Maclay starting in 1923. Maclay featured camellias as the "backbone" of the gardens design, but also included hundreds of other flowers. The name "Killearn" came from a village in Scotland where Mr. Maclay's great-grandfather, the Reverend Archibald Maclay was born. Maclay died in 1944, and two years later his wife made the gardens public. In April 1953, Mrs. Alfred B. Maclay and children gave the 307-acres Killearn Gardens (including the Maclay house) to the Florida Board of Parks and Historic Memorials as a memorial to Alfred Barmore Maclay. The Maclay House and most of the associated buildings were constructed circa 1906 to 1909, when the land was used as a hunting plantation. In 1965, the park was renamed Maclay Gardens. In 2002, the park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Killearn Plantation Archeological and Historic District.