Cherry Blossom Festival: Essex County Bloomfest 2006 April 23, 2006

More than 100,000 visitors are expected to visit Essex County's Branch Brook Park, the nation's first County Park and home to a unique display of Japanese flowering cherry trees, during this year's 30th Annual Essex County Cherry Blossom Festival. The year marks the 80th anniversary of the gift of 2,000 flowering cherry trees in Branch Brook Park by Caroline Bamberger Fuld. Branch Brook Park is listed on both the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places. Conceived by Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park and Prospect Park in New York, in 1867, the park was designed by the Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architectural Firm from 1898 to 1940.

Official Website: http://branchbrookpark.org/event.htm