Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens (Washington, D.C.) | NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, botanical garden, New Deal Depression Relief Project [1933-1945]

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Across the Anacostia River from the National Arboretum, the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens are a free interesting water garden area. In season, it can be very gorgeous, but out of season it is a little brown and uninteresting. There is a boardwalk trail to a wetland overlook on the Anacostia river. The gardens are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Improvement and maintenance to the park in its early days, including raising dikes to prevent flooding, is known to have been carried out by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC was a New Deal program that operated between 1933 and 1942 and provided work for unmarried, unemployed men who were struggling to find work during the Great Depression.