PORTSMOUTH - The exhibit “The Georgian Garden in Print and in Portsmouth 1714-1830” will open in the Portsmouth Athenaeum’s Randall Gallery on July 16.
Portsmouth’s most exotic garden folly was “Fort Anglesea,” built about 1799 by Edward Parry (1766-1834) on the shoreline of the South Mill Pond at the foot of Edward Street in what is now a part of Haven Park.
Named for Parry’s birthplace, the island of Anglesea in Wales, the mock fort is shown on the city map of 1813 and was vividly described by Tobias Ham Miller in an article for the Portsmouth Morning Chronicle on March 29, 1853.