Show who often sat beneath it and related to interested listeners the wonders of the telegraph standing at the corner of pennsylvania avenue and fourteenth street this elm had looked down upon every inaugural parade ever held in the capital seethe scythe tree in waterloo N X Y when wyburn johnson enlisted in the union army in 1801 lie he hung his scythe tit in a crotch of a small tree to be left there until his return lie ile was killed in battle and the tree in its growth enveloped the lin scythe until now it Is firmly embedded in the trunk with only the point showing wesley oak on st Sli simons island ga under this fits tree both john nod and charles wesley f fomia I 1 ld ers of the methodist church in america pren preached c cited their first sermons on this continent webster tree trea near franklin N 11 II on this tree dancel webster hung his scythe when lie he decided to go to dartmouth college and the path from tills this tree lei led webster to congress and to the office of the secretary of state ile he never reached the presidency but he twice refused the for vice president and tin in both cases bases the he head of the ticket on oil which he would have been elected died in office council oak in sioux city iowa beneath which lewis and leirl li irl camped anti and held one of their first coun councils clIS with the indians after leaving st louls blattle around oak at guilford bullford Sul lford court louse house 9 C also called the liberty tree it stands on the battle ground of guilford court house fought march 15 1781 the battle that won the revolution since cornwallis Cornwall ls costly victory there led directly to yorktown and his so surrender rr ender general greene Is salato said to have tied his horse to this tree during the battle kentucky ICen tucky coffee tree in front of the ver planck mansion at fishkill on hudson occupied b by baron steuben luring during the revolution T the he first meeting of the society of the cincinnati was held under this tree live oak at flo filomona mona calif marking the spot where in 1837 the first white settlers camped in the pomona valley abraham lincoln tree in decorah Decoi ah iowa a litick huckberry berry planted by biohn finn in memory of the martyred marty red president on april at 27 IW the day which the governor of town iowa had designated de 8 ignatee as a lay day of mourning for I 1 lincoln the tree Is now feet high rind find nearly 12 feet around the donegal on oak at the D donegal one church I 1 in n pennsylvania here in 1777 the congregation was interrupted by an express rider who roused the countryside with the information that the drills army under lori lord ilowe had left new york to invade pennsylvania tree and church are in an excellent cc ellent state of preservation the dath bath horse borse chestnut near bath pa given to gen robert drown brown by george washington as a token of friendship fruit from this tree known its as the friendship tree lins has been planted on the white house grounds and in each state to establish washington friendship groves grove S 11 the brandywine sycamore near the brandywine baptist church at chadds ford pa ila under its wide branches Is the stone house used by general lafayette as his headquarters before the battle of brandywine brand wine in 1777 the fre french rich general was laid under this tree after having been wounded and since that time the tree has been known as the lafayette sycamore the lone sentinel a giant cottonwood b by y the river bridge in dodge city VIM fan the tree was there when the settlers came in 1871 and 1872 it was one of three trees for miles along the river this tree Is nearly a century old for chief Sat finta told the late A 3 anthony that his tribe had named it tile the lone sentinel and had record of it for years tradition has it that several horse thieves were hanged from this tree and nd the old cowboys and gunmen used to tack targets on it for pistol practice tile the trunk Is full of lend lead the general sherman sequoia declared to be the oldest thing now living it was ot of giant growth tit at the time of the birth of christ almost 2000 years ago today at an age of more mora than years it has a diameter of feet and a height of feet this tree Is located in sequoia national park where it stands as a memorial to gen william tecumseh sherman as well as the undisputed monarch of the age the naturalization tree in Xen kentucky tucky a symbol of the american spirit of today its fame rests on its service in connection with amer ainer Ican izing recruits at camp zachary taylor during the recent war under its branches thousands of aliens took the oath of allegiance upon being mustered into the ranks of the united states array army un on a single day this tree witnessed ilie the naturalization of 02 of these new americans and saw their salute to the lag flag of their new citizenship llio tha lonesome pine near title tate springs tenn which was the model for the artist who illustrated john fox jr ars s trall of the lonesome pine rind and which tins has become famous in ill song rind aud story W 0 by apar won |