Olmsted (Frederick Law) is born in Hartford.

The son of John and Charlotte (Hull) Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmsted becomes a self-taught “scientific farmer” and engineer, and with Calvert Vaux, designs Central Park in Manhattan in 1857, other projects throughout the county, and comes to be known as the “Father of American Landscape Architecture.” He arrives in Boston after being hired by the Boston Parks Department in 1878, settles in Brookline in 1883,* and goes on to design much of Boston’s park system, including what comes to be called the Emerald Necklace. After his retirement, he is committed to McLean Hospital, an institution for which he had submitted landscaping plans, and dies there on August 28, 1903. Olmsted is buried in Hartford, Connecticut.