Rowe Woods was founded In 1965 as the main location for the
Cincinnati Nature Center, founded by a handful of dedicated and visionary naturalists,
lead by Stanley
M. Rowe Sr., Karl H. Maslowski, Kay Benedict, Helen Black and Katherine
T. Nyce. Along with other people they created an organization where people could experience, study
and enjoy the natural world. Carl Krippendorf's property originally
named Karlsruhe Gardens, meaning “Karl’s place of peace,” after
World War I the name was changed by Carl and Mary to Lob’s Wood.
Then in 1965 it became Rowe Woods. Cincinnati Nature Center is in Milford Ohio, this was the physical location for this new
organization. This website is not affiliated with the CNC. Thanks to Carl and Mary Krippendorf
for leaving Lob's Wood a nature paradise to build upon, and with out you Stanley
Rowe this would not
not have such a beautiful place to save.
Rowe Woods has grown to the
North and to the South since then. Here you will find before and after
pictures since the old Cincinnati Nature Center mission statement
was scraped and a new mission in place. The old idea of allowing the
land to return to it's natural state has had a change to a new
Disneyesque type of nature place. A new simulated nature playscape
playground has replaced once pristine fields and woodlands. Colorful
signs now block once beautiful views of the Lotus Pond and along
many things along the hiking trails. The CNC has gone commercial, no
longer a nature haven for the purists. The new board of
has started a pre-school to fit with the simulated
nature playground theme.
This site is dedicated to the people who live in and around Rowe Woods, Cincinnati Nature
Center.
This website is not affiliated with the Cincinnati Nature
Center.
This site is dedicated to
Stanley M. Rowe Sr., Karl H. Maslowski, Kay Benedict, Helen
Black, Katherine T. Nyce, William J. Whittaker, Jim and Jeanne
Anderson. As well as the other founders of the Cincinnati Nature
Center
Below are links to to my other websites
with pictures of Rowe Woods.
Natural Light Smugmug -
PBase
Galleries -
FlickR Sets -
Copyright © - 2013
- Dennis
Camp
