Based on the private collections of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, the Hunt Institute was initially founded in 1961 as the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library.
Natural History
Rodef Shalom Biblical Botanical Garden was established in 1987. It is the largest biblical botanical garden in North America (1/3 acre) and the only one with an ongoing program of research and publication.
The Presque Isle park, which is free for anyone to use without entrance or parking charges, draws, on the average, about four million visitors a year, most years over a million more than Yellowstone National Park, according to the Erie County Convention & Visitors Bureau, a division of the Er