Ijams Land Dedication & Recognition of the Ijams Family

When H.P. and Alice Ijams purchased 20 acres of land along the Tennessee River in 1910, they couldn’t have known their family would still be contributing to the legacy that would become the 318-acre nonprofit Ijams Nature Center more than a century later.

Please join Ijams Nature Center as it celebrates the contributions of the Ijams family and dedicates three acres of land recently donated to the nature center by H.P. and Alice’s granddaughter, Martha Kern, on Thursday, April 28, at 10 a.m. RSVPs are optional.

Kern said the land, bordered by the Will Skelton Greenway and Ijams’ Secret Pond Trail near the Ijams Nature Preschool, will be a place for early childhood education and nature play in honor of her mother, Josephine, and her mother’s three sisters, Mary, Martha, and Elizabeth, who were the first Ijams children to explore the property.

“Growing up at my grandparent’s house and roaming…