DEERFIELD TREES 



to the locality. The preservation of the arts 

 of weaving and basketry, practiced by those 

 brave women who were the wives of the 

 pioneers and the mothers of their children, 

 constitutes another marked characteristic. 



But the finishing touch of beauty is to be 

 found in the spreading elms, the maples 

 and the button woods. They blend into the 

 picture as they do into the whole history of 

 the settlement. Standing at the head of 

 the street as one approaches from the direc- 

 tion of Greenfield, is a huge elm, seventeen 

 feet in circumference and one hundred feet 

 in height. This tree was without question 

 standing here when Capt. Lothrop and his 

 band of young men, the heroes of Bloody 

 Brook Massacre, passed by. And from this 

 point, on to the other end of the town, trees 

 equally as old may be seen. 



It is difficult to select a single tree, which, 

 from all standpoints, may be considered as 

 representative of the historic trees of Deer- 

 field. But since the great "Willard Elm," 

 which stood in the northeast corner of the 

 old-time barricade, is no longer standing, the 



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