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OF Ohio 



HISTORIC TREES OF OHIO 



By Edmund Secrest 

 State Forester 



Logan Elm 



Of all the trees in Ohio that are identified 

 with history, the Logan Elm is the best 

 known and perhaps the most beautiful. 

 The trunk of the tree is 7 feet in diameter 6 feet above the 

 ground. It is 70 feet in height, and the crown has a spread 

 of 148 feet. The Logan Elm is still a vigorous tree, not- 

 withstanding that a part of its top was blown off. The 

 tree with a plot of ground of a few acres is now a State Park. 



The Logan Elm was named in honor of the Indian, 

 Logan, a chief of the Mingo tribe, whose character and per- 

 sonality were of unusual quality. 



The tree gets its historic significance from the Dunmore- 

 Indian war. Lord Dunmore, then Colonial Governor of 

 Virginia, is supposed to have made a treaty with the Indians 

 under the elm which was subsequently named in honor of 

 Chief Logan. Another version is that Logan delivered his 

 famous speech under the branches of this tree. 



The Dunmore-Indian treaty was made in 1774, two years 

 before the American Revolution, and had it not been for 

 this treaty the western boundary of the Colonies at the 

 close of the Revolution would probably have been the Alle- 

 gheny Mountains. 



The Logan Elm State Park is 6 miles south of Circlevillc 

 in Pickaway County. 



Tlie McGuffy Elms 



The McGuffy Elms, a fine row of 

 trees extending across the north 

 side of the campus of Ohio Uni- 

 versity at Athens, are said to have been planted by William 

 McGuffy while he was president of that Institution. The 

 row at present contains fifteen trees of a probable original 

 number of forty-eight. They range in diameter from 24 

 to 40 inches, and are about 80 years old. 



The trees commemorate the author of the famous series 

 of school readers used generally a half century ago. 



The Fort Ball Sycamore 



This tree marks the site of 

 Old Fort Ball, in Tiffin, 

 Seneca County, built in 

 1813 by order of General William Henry Harrison. It is 

 approximately 2^ feet in diameter, and 8 feet from the 

 ground forms a double trunk. A tablet was erected at 

 its base by the Dolly Todd Madison Chapter of Daughters 

 of the American Revolution in 1926. 



