Millersville in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Rain Garden

Center for Sustainability

— People - Planet - Profit —

Rain Garden Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Carl Gordon Moore Jr., November 27, 2020

1. Rain Garden Marker

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Inscription.

Rain Garden. Center for Sustainability. "Inspiring our MU community to engage in the 3 pillars of a sustainable society: Social Justice (People), Environmental Preservation (Planet), and Economic Vitality (Profit)" , Dr. Nadine Garner, Director, Supporting the United Nations' , 3 Pillars of Sustainability:, . Planet (Environmental Preservation) , . The rain garden is an effective storm water management practice: the downspout from the neighboring roof was redirected to divert rainwater into the garden. , . Storm water runoff is reduced by retaining and filtering water through percolation and evapotranspiration. , . Populated with native plants, the garden creates an aesthetically appealing, naturally biodiverse ecosystem in place of the monoculture of turf, attracting beneficial insects and birds., People (Social Justice) , . The rain garden is a collaboration between the Center for Sustainability and 25 landscape artists, who installed the garden during the Native Plants in the Landscape Conference at MU in June 2014. , . Landscape artists received continuing education credits for participating in the workshop, titled "Vegetated Solutions for Functional and Aesthetic Rain Gardens,” led by Kevin Staso and Claudia West of North Creek Nurseries. , . The rain garden provides a working example for the MU community to integrate into our own homes and gardens., Profit (Economic Vitality) , . Rain gardens are cost-effective and low-maintenance: they do not require pruning, mulching, or mowing., Check out our webpage for photos of the garden year-round!, SOLUTION GENERATION. Charting a New Course on Climate, a SOLUTION GENERATION/ecoAmerica partner, Visit us at: millersville.edu/ccerp/sustainability or connect with us on the Center for Sustainability - Millersville University facebook page. f, Contact Dr. Nadine Garner, Director of the Center for Sustainability, at [email protected], What's in the Garden?, [1st column, top to bottom] , Allium cernuum - "Nodding Onion" , Deschampsia cespitosa - "Tufted Hair Grass" , Eryngium yuccifolium - "Rattlesnake Master" , Juncus tenuis - "Path Rush" , Packera aurea - "Golden Ragwort" , Pycnanthemum lexuosum -"Appalachian Mountain Mint", [2nd column, top to bottom] , Vernonia lettermannii - "Iron Butterfly" , Solidago odora - "Sweet Goldenrod" , Andropogon virginicus – "Broomsedge" , Liatris spicata - "Spike Gayfeather" , Monarda bradburiana - "Eastern Beebalm"

"Inspiring our MU community to engage in the 3 pillars of a sustainable society: Social Justice (People), Environmental Preservation (Planet), and Economic Vitality (Profit)"
Dr. Nadine Garner, Director

Supporting the United Nations'
3 Pillars of Sustainability:

Planet (Environmental Preservation)
• The rain garden is an effective storm water management practice: the downspout from the neighboring roof was redirected to divert rainwater into the garden.
• Storm water runoff is reduced by retaining and filtering water through percolation and evapotranspiration.
• Populated with native plants, the garden creates an aesthetically appealing, naturally biodiverse ecosystem in place of the monoculture of turf, attracting beneficial insects and birds.

People (Social Justice)
• The rain garden is a collaboration between the Center for Sustainability and 25 landscape artists, who installed the garden during the Native Plants in the Landscape Conference at MU in June 2014.
• Landscape artists received continuing education credits for participating in the workshop, titled "Vegetated Solutions for Functional and Aesthetic Rain Gardens,” led by Kevin Staso and Claudia West of North Creek Nurseries.
• The rain garden provides

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a working example for the MU community to integrate into our own homes and gardens.

Profit (Economic Vitality)
• Rain gardens are cost-effective and low-maintenance: they do not require pruning, mulching, or mowing.

Check out our webpage for photos of the garden year-round!

SOLUTION GENERATION. Charting a New Course on Climate

a SOLUTION GENERATION/ecoAmerica partner

Visit us at: millersville.edu/ccerp/sustainability or connect with us on the Center for Sustainability - Millersville University facebook page. *f*

Contact Dr. Nadine Garner, Director of the Center for Sustainability, at [email protected]

What's in the Garden?

[1st column, top to bottom]
Allium cernuum - "Nodding Onion"
Deschampsia cespitosa - "Tufted Hair Grass"
Eryngium yuccifolium - "Rattlesnake Master"
Juncus tenuis - "Path Rush"
Packera aurea - "Golden Ragwort"
Pycnanthemum lexuosum -"Appalachian Mountain Mint"

[2nd column, top to bottom]
Vernonia lettermannii - "Iron Butterfly"
Solidago odora - "Sweet Goldenrod"
Andropogon virginicus – "Broomsedge"
Liatris spicata - "Spike Gayfeather"
Monarda bradburiana - "Eastern Beebalm"

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Environment.

Location.

Photographed by Carl Gordon Moore Jr., November 27, 2020

2. Rain Garden Marker

39° 59.838′ N, 76° 21.204′ W. Marker is in Millersville, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County. It is on Ann Street 0.1 miles east of S. George Street, on the right when traveling east. Marker is on the Millersville University campus. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Millersville PA 17551, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in South-Central Pennsylvania, specifically in Pennsylvania Dutch Country,

and in the Susquehanna Valley.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy

and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Civil War Memorial (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Old Main (about 700 feet away); Millersville University (about 700 feet away); Flowering Dogwood (approx. 0.2 miles away); Founders of Millersville University (approx. 0.2 miles away); Tulip Tree (approx. 0.2 miles away); Saucer Magnolia (approx. 0.2 miles away); Dutcher Hall (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Millersville.

Credits. This page was last revised on November 30, 2020. It was originally submitted on November 28, 2020, by Carl Gordon Moore Jr. of North East, Maryland. This page has been viewed 253 times since then and 12 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on November 28, 2020, by Carl Gordon Moore Jr. of North East, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.