Opportunity Presented to Acquire Land for Orson Hyde Garden
1974 - Opportunity Presented to Acquire Land for Orson Hyde Garden
Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek approaches David Galbraith to ascertain Church interest in acquiring a five-and-one-half-acre parcel of land that had become available on the Mount of Olives, landscaping it, and then donating it to Jerusalem to be a city park named in honor of Orson Hyde. The Church chooses not to be directly involved, but a Utah LLC, The Orson Hyde Foundation, is created for the purpose of raising money to purchase the land and donate it to the Jerusalem Foundation.
(Information provided by BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 59, Number 4, 2020)