A picture from the old days ( borrowed )

[Bearded Munch]

Found this on a link.

[Beardie]

What massive elm bark beetles all over it!

[Paul Jenks]

I like the ladders. Who needs sky hooks.

[Johny Walker]

I like the ladders. Who needs sky hooks.

 

:lol::lol:

[dexta]

I wonder if the tree is still there

[fergusonforestry]

from 1896 that

[dexta]

Found this about the Dexta elm

 

In the year 1666 there came to the fam-

ily of Dexter in Maiden an infant. To-

day its remains, dead but one year, were

exhumed and carted away by workmen

engaged in clearing up the Dexter estate.

 

For 249 years it grew, grew from in-

fancy to youth, from youth to old age,

until at last, giving In to the demands of

time, the one-time Dexter giant followed [

those who had carefully nurtured It

through its infancy, had loved it in its

youth and revered it in old age.

 

During the many years of life It had

been a friend to thousands. Washing- I

ton, when he came from the South to I

take command of the Continental troops, j

was made a friend. Other men and '

women prominent in the history of the !

United States were its friends, and the !

"infant" itself has been mentioned in ;

the history of the country many times, i

 

The Dexter Elm, for so the big tree

was named, was planted by the first

Uichard Dexter in 1666. Up to a few

years ago its giant branches waved over

the Dexter estate in Maiden. But the

exigencies of age, the dry weather of

last year and the leopard moth sapped

Us strength until it died.

 

Today the stump of the tree was up-

rooted and transferred to the Pearl

street lot and there cast on the dump.

 

City Forester Young, who had charge

of the work of removal, discovered that

the giant trunk weighed eight tons, that

It was 35 **et In circumference at the

base and HaI the largest ring growth

inside the tree was for the first 80 years

of its lif«