DEERFIELD TREES 



In connection with the elm tree on the 

 Albany road it is worthy of note that the 

 Indians usually led their captives past this 

 tree to a ford in the river, and thence to 

 the Mohawk trail. The tree is known as 

 "the elm by the little brown house." 

 Thickly growing bushes and vines conceal 

 its huge abutments, which stretch out on 

 each side of the tree to a distance of seven 

 feet. In girth this tree qualifies as an elm 

 of the first class, being twenty feet in circum- 

 ference; the height is eighty-two feet, and 

 the spread one hundred feet. With the 

 exception of a few dead branches the tree 

 appears to be in good health. 



Strangely enough, there is hardly a spot 

 in historic Deerfield marked by a monument 

 which is not also marked, at no great dis- 

 tance, by an old tree; and one ponders, as 

 he reads the various inscriptions, upon the 

 number of living trees that were witnesses 

 of the events commemorated by tablets of 

 stone. 



The country to the north and south of 

 Deerfield is dotted with many beautiful 



