Show 7 ELMO SCOTT WATSON proclamation setting aside the week of april 22 to 28 as american au ewt forest week and urging that where practicable and not in conflict with law or custom arbor day be observed during the course of the week should make aej amer leans iree minded in hat they should give thought to the reservation and wise use of our it orests it might be well also to give thought to some of the famous trees which have stood or are still standing on the soil of the united states and which have placed their part in the history mal ing of this nation in tact eo important has been the role of trees in american history that the american tree association a few years ago established a hall of fame for trees and immediately citizens in all parts of the country proud of the trees in their communities nominated them for places in this gal lery of honor although nearly every state boasts bot one or more trees which Is well known locally or throughout the state there are comparatively few are or have been objects of national generation there are three IBI however which are probably known ato evera american first of these perhaps is the washington rim it cambridge mas under which george washington took command of the continental army on july 3 1775 the long and honored career of thi tree then more than years old came to an end in august 1923 when the whole trunk cracked and fell while workmen were pulling a dead branch from it another famous tree 0 the same species was the treaty elm on ohp banks of the delaware river un der whose branches william penn and the indians made the only treaty between these people and the christians that was not ratified b oath and that was never broken an agreement that gave the famous quaker title to the land which later JK became the great state of pennsyl J vania the treaty elm was blown down in 1810 and its age at that time was estimated to have been years the third in the trilogy of most famous trees was not an elm but what schoolboy does not know the thrilling history of the charter oak which once stood in hartford conn in its hollow trunk it once held the charter of the colony of connecticut where capt joseph wadsworth placed it when the lights were sud denly extinguished on that occasion in 1687 when sir edmund andros who had been appointed governor of 7 england demanded that the assembly surrender to him this symbol of their liberties as eng elsh citizens and when the charter oak was uprooted by a storm in 1856 the whole state of connecticut went into mourning church bells were tolled and this great oak which was believed to be between and 1000 years old lo 10 the only tree on record for which funeral services were ever held although the following Is by no means a complete of all the his trees in the united states have been registered in the tree hall of tame or otherwise honored by the american people some p hem still standing and some long since passed away it will give an idea of the intimate association of some monarch of the forest with some history mak ing event washington elm near palmer masson the springfield boston high way of which it Is recorded that beneath this tree washington rested and refreshed himself and delivered a short address only three days grevl ius to taking command of the army at ambridge I 1 iberry tree an elm which stood n boston common and under which meetings to protest against the shimp vet and other oppressions oppress ions by eng and iv ere held by the patriots it was cut down in 1775 while the brit ish army occupied boston tor alre wood and for revenge upon the rebels lafayette tree in front of la headquarters at yorktown vo the house still contains Im bedded in its walls cannon balls fired during the siege of yorktown and previous to the surrender of cornwallis ls treaty tree near vincennes ind sole survivor of a walnut grove in which gen lellam henry harrlson held a council alth the great indian chief tecumseh august 1210 1810 boone s bar tree on boone s creek a small tributary of the vau in eastern tennessee whick while still standing bore the lion by the noted D boon called A BAR on this tree year daniel boone judgment tree an elm at osage about fifty five miles west of st boulo on a farm which was part of the land tilled by boone during his missouri residence in 1820 it Is so named from the fact that boone ald court under it during the hot days of summer john browns tree a white pak near conn under whose branches john brown of osawatomie Osawa tomie and herpers Hir pers fame placed as a child calling it mv tree and revisiting it every time he returned to the ancestral home in connecticut it Is also called the council tree because of its use for tha purpose by indians of that vicinity morse him in washington D C named for samuel F morse in of the telegraph who often sat beneath it and related to interest cd listeners the wonders of the telegraph standing at the corner of pennsylvania avenue and fourteenth street this elm had cooled doan upon every inaugural parade that had ever been held in the capital tree that owns itaf an oak in athens ga which owns the land on which it stand through a deed made by dr W jackson her of the faculty ot the university of georgia when the opening of a street through that land threatened its destruction scythe tree in waterloo N when aburn johnson enlisted in the union army in 1801 he hung his scythe in a crotch of a small tree to be left there until his return was killed in battle and the tree in its growth enveloped the scythe un til now it Is firmly embedded in the trunk with only the point showing wesley oak on st simons island ga under this tree both john and charleo wesley founders of the methodist church in america preached their first sermons on this continent webster tree near franklin N H on this tree daniel webster bung his scythe when he decided to go to dartmouth college and the path from this tree led webster to congress and to the office of the secretary of state he never reached the presidency bu he twice refused the nomination for vice president and in both cases the head of the ticket on which he would have been elected died in office council oak in sioux city iowa beneath which lewis and clark camped and held one of their first councils with the indians after leav ing st louls battle ground oak at bullford Gul lford court house N C also called the liberty tree it stands on the bat tie ground of bullford Gul lford court house fought march the battle that won the revolution since cornwallis ls costly victory there led directly to yorktown lork town and his surrender general greene Is ald to have tied his horse to this tree during the battle kentucky coffee tree in front of the ver planca mansion at on hudson occupied by baron steu ben during alie revolution the first meeting of the society of the cin cinnoti was held under this tree live oak at pomona calif mark ing the spot where in 1837 the first white settlers camped in the pomona valley abraham lincoln tree in Dec orith iowa a hackberry planted by hohn finn in memory of the martyred marty red president on april 27 the day which the governor of iowa had designated as a day of mourning for lincoln the are Is now feet high and nearly 12 feet around |