Bowie Museum & Park History
The Bowie Museum, located in the Nature Center, includes a permanent display of family items including documentation of the enormous efforts to reclaim over 700 acres of eroded farmland. Photographs, financial records and other memorabilia offer a peek into the lives of a most unusual, generous and accomplished family.
Public awareness of the history of Bowie Nature Park is a primary goal of the Friends. To that end, the group raised over $10,000 for a museum and convinced City administrators to set aside an area in the new Nature Center for that purpose.
Inside the Nature Center, a life-sized likeness of Evangeline Bowie welcomes visitors to the Bowie Museum. She also serves as anchor in a grand three-dimensional diorama illustrating forest succession, the natural progression of woodlands from pine to hardwood that was put into motion by Evangeline Bowie during the 1950's.
In 2012 the Friends completed an effort to archivally protect the collection of Bowie memorabilia.
