History Beckons You To Company Garden

The soothing climate of the Queen of the Hills prompted Dr. King of the Royal Botanical Garden Calcutta, Dr. Royale of the Saharanpore Botanical Garden and General Biddulf of the Bengal Engineers to establish a branch of the gardens in Mussoorie and the plan was executed in the year 1842 as the Company Garden. Ever since November 2005, the Company Garden is being developed and managed by the Garden Welfare Association as a tie-up with the Nagar Paalika Parishad Mussoorie under the Public Private Partnership scheme. The Company Garden is an ideal spacious zone for a picnic amidst the environs which is the coldest in the entire township. The Company Garden houses and nurtures a healthy accumulation of exotic flowers and the rare Gingko Biloba trees which is a living fossil. Another witness of the past is the electric pole which was fabricated in Glasgow,  Scotland, and was erected at the Library square when electricity came to Mussoorie in the year 1905. Later, the pole was removed from the square to easy the traffic congestion. The Company Garden Welfare association revamped it restored it at the Company Garden. The pole is fully functional now with new LED lights.