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Aburi Botanical Gardens
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The garden occupies an area of 64.8 hectares. It was opened in March 1890.[1] Before the garden was established, it was the site of a sanatorium built in 1875 for Gold Coast government officials. During the governorship of William Brandford-Griffith, a Basel missionary supervised clearing of land around the sanatorium to start the Botanic Department. In 1890 William Crowther, a student from...more
