The park memorializes Joseph Bryan (1845–1908), the founder and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper.

[4] In mid-2024, the City of Richmond broke ground on the city's portion of the Fall Line Trail, an approximately 43-mile[5] multi-use trail currently (2024) under development — from a northern terminus in Ashland, Virginia, to a southern terminus in Petersburg, Virginia.

The thirteen-mile segment extends from Bryan Park, which will become a key trailhead, to the Chesterfield County border to the South.

The garden proper was begun in 1952 by Mr. Robert E. Harvey, a former Recreation and Parks Superintendent.

This article about a property in Richmond, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.