The Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden 1105 Hobbs Road, just north of Friendly Avenue This Garden was created in 1976 to commemorate our nation's bicentennial. Today, the garden is a thriving landmark and destination for Triad residents and visitors. The Bicentennial Garden includes a wealth of plantings from ground covers, shrubs, mass plantings of annuals and perennials, to flowering and canopy trees. To complement the natural beauty, a Wedding Gazebo adds an air of elegance, a man-made recirculating stream provides texture, movement and sound, and a Sensory Garden engages visitors in an interactive landscape experience. A variety of sculpture placed throughout the garden provides artistic and historic interest.

The Reverend Dr. David Caldwell (1725-1824) was a Presbyterian minister, a self-trained physician, and an early educator in colonial North Carolina. At this site in 1767, he opened an academy for young men. The Academy produced five state governors!

Dr. Caldwell originally owned some 550 acres of land in what is now Greensboro. The portion on which the academy and his home once stood, is dedicated parkland maintained by the Greensboro Parks & Recreation Department.

In 2000, Greensboro Beautiful received a bequest from the estate of Walter Sills for further enhancement of David Caldwell Historic Park, located next to The Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden on Hobbs Road. Greensboro Beautiful's Board of Directors voted to establish an organizational endowment with the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro to manage the Sills' bequest for historical research, additional archaeological survey work, and for the construction of an interpretive center on the property. The facility will educate visitors about David Caldwell, his academy and his contributions to our state and region.

The new Interpretive Center at David Caldwell Historic Park was dedicated on April 20, 2007. Future programming and exhibits are being developed by the Greensboro Parks & Recreation Department’s Historic Parks Division.

Containing a rich history and heritage important to the City of Greensboro and North Carolina, the David Caldwell Historic Park has the potential to become a significant educational and historical park. Learn more about the history and ongoing research efforts at http://david_caldwell.gborocollege.edu.

An archaeological excavation is investigating the site for outlying structures and artifacts from the late 18th and early 19th century. Such artifacts may shed light on the Caldwell’s lifestyle.