Azaleas Say Welcome

Be the first to see the azaleas that thousands of visitors to Tyler, Texas, will enjoy this spring.

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The Tyler Azalea Trail Gardens of Tyler, Texas
Ralph Anderson

The Tyler Azalea Trail

Great gardens can spring up in surprising places. Believe it or not, the star attraction at the annual Tyler Azalea Trail had its origin in―of all things―the Depression.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to put the country back to work, WPA employees took on all kinds of projects. In Tyler, they built some of the beautiful redbrick streets and oversaw the construction of a big drainage project. Spanned by stone bridges, it runs through the backyards of homes in a community that was once surrounded by cotton fields.

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The Tyler Azalea Trail Gardens of Tyler, Texas

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