LocationKansas City Zoo in Swope Park |
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Location: SwopePark, south of west end of swinging bridge at the Lagoon in the Kansas City Zoo
Designer: Unknown
Dedicated: 1954
Description: A limestone monument with imbedded marble plaque 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 3 inches and two limestone walls projecting 10 feet each way outward from the sides. A stone bench, located below the marble plaque, is part of the monument.
Mr. Albert E. Shirling was an instructor of Biology in the Kansas CityHigh Schools and a naturalist. The monument was located in this natural setting in memory of his work. Inscribed on the marble plaque is the following:
SHIRLING SANCTUARY
This tract is preserved in its natural state in memory of
ALBERT ELWOOD SHIRLING
Teacher and Naturalist – 1875-1947. Here among the trees, flowers, and wild creatures of this woodland, he inspired an appreciation of nature, unspoiled and undisturbed.
Dedicated 1954
Burroughs Nature Club
Nearly 200 hundred years after the area’s first fur trading post was settled on the bluffs of the Missouri River, Kansas City is preparing to honor the French pioneer Francois Chouteau who established it, and the Native Americans with whom he traded. Francois Chouteau...
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