[1] The garden was created by W. Fulmer Wells in 1930, donated to the city in 1971, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

On February 12, 2012, at 12:12 the City of Newberry met with Senior Curator of The Presidential Service Museum, Martin CJ Mongiello, to accept a gift of a Matsu (pine) tree.

Mongiello lived in Japan for many years and remembered visiting Tokyo's famed Zōjō-ji Temple, where Presidents George H. W. Bush and Ulysses S. Grant each planted a pine tree.

Doctor Jerry Livingston, a local resident and former missionary in Japan of 40 years visited at 2:12 on the 12th to be introduced to the garden for the first time.

This article about a property in Newberry County, South Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.