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Historic Trees in New Jersey

By Linda Tancs

Shakespeare spoke of tongues in trees.  Oh, what tales New Jersey’s historic trees could tell.  On the Cranford campus of Union County College near the Sperry Observatory is a historic tree grove born of seedlings from some of the nation’s most historic trees.  Take a gander at tree #7, the Abraham Lincoln Overcup Oak, grown from a seed of the tree that graces the yard of our 16th President’s boyhood home.   Tree #10, the Berkeley Plantation White Ash, represents several seminal events in colonial history in Virginia:  two signers of the Declaration of Independence were born at the Plantation, which also boasts the first three-story brick structure in America.   Other notables include the Antietam Sycamore, Gettysburg Address Honey Locust, Wilbur and Orville Wright Red Cedar and Sergeant Alvin York Tulip Poplar.

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Very iritnesetng subject , thankyou for putting up. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” by George Ellis.

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