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The Waddell Barnes Botanical Gardens (167 acres) are botanical gardens located across the campus of Macon State College Macon Georgia. They are open daily without charge.The gardens were established in 1967 to designs of landscape architect Clay Adamson when college construction began. Initial planting consisted of more than 1600 trees 2500 shrubs and 12000 ground cover plants. Thirty years later Dr.