Created on the site of a previous industrial mill complex,[1] it is located seven miles south of the similarly named John J. Tyler Arboretum.
This arboretum features a grotto (former quarry), millrace, and pond with bald cypress.
Its collection also includes three Pennsylvania State Champion Trees (a giant dogwood, a needle juniper, and a lacebark elm), as well as azaleas, dogwoods, magnolias, junipers, lilacs, viburnums, witch-hazels, Japanese maples, boxwoods, and arborvitae.
In 2005, the dam was removed to make the environment "flow more smoothly" and because people were swimming in the creek.
[2] The remains of the dam, including large rocks and the steel that held it together, may be found at the bank of the creek.