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The Jesse Hepler Lilac Arboretum was located on the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham New Hampshire USA at 4 Library Way from 1940 to 1980. Jesse R. Hepler was acting chairman of the horticulture department in 1938 and suggested establishing a lilac arboretum on the slope behind Thompson Hall a site that became known as Lilac Hill. It was dedicated in 1940 and in 1948 many of the research species were relocated there.