"THE HALL OF FAME FOR TREES" 



The Old Red Oak at Lloyd's Neck 



This beautiful old tree has been nominated for a place in the Hall of Fame for Trees with a History by 

 Col. William E. Rogers, of Washington, D. C. It is located on the property of Mr. Walter Jennings, at 

 Lloyd's Neck, on the North Shore of Long Island, and Colonel Rogers, whose old home is at Huntington, 

 has known the tree well since he was a boy. In Revolutionary days the British occupied two strongholds on 

 Lloyd's Neck East Fort and West Fort from which they levied tribute on all the surrounding country and 

 which were for a long time their bases of supply. The oak is located about midway between the two forts, 

 facing Halesite, a spot of historic fame because it was here that Nathan Hale, who only regretted that he 

 had "but one life to lose" for his country, was finally captured. If the old oak could talk, it could doubtless 

 tell many a thrilling tale first of the earliest possessors of the land, the Indian braves; then of its settlement 

 by the whites and of its later occupation by the British military forces and finally, years later, of the calm 

 and peaceful days during the administration of President Martin Van Buren, who with his close friend, C. C. 

 Cambreleng, the then minister to Russia, and Washington Irving, spent a great deal of time in the vicinity 

 enjoying the fishing, than which there was none better. The old giant is 16 feet 8 inches in circumference 

 three feet above the ground, by measurements taken three years ago, and the spread of its branches is 150 feet. 

 It has been pronounced by experts to be at least 400 years old and Dr. Britton, of the New York Botanical 

 Gardens, considers it the largest and fijiest specimen tree in the East. For a tree of its unquestioned age, its 

 symmetry and beautiful form are remarkable. 



