LEXINGTON AND CONCORD TREES 



halted in the center of the town. It is 

 fifteen and a half feet in circumference. 

 The buttonwood in front of the Jesse C. 

 Brown house, and the elm in the middle of 

 the sidewalk in front of the C. F. Haywood 

 place, both on Lexington Road, must have 

 looked sternly down upon the tramping 

 throng as it came and departed. Each tree 

 is more than twelve feet in circumference, 

 and the elm increases by huge abutments 

 until, at the ground, the circumference is 

 nearly doubled. 



On the bank of the Concord River, just 

 beyond the Monument Street bridge, and 

 not far from the famous "monument of the 

 minute-man" there is a very old willow tree. 

 Its girth is greater than that of any tree in 

 Concord, and it is known to have been a 

 sizable specimen even in Revolutionary 

 times. The circumference at breast height, 

 measured from the upper side is twenty- 

 two feet; from the lower side it is eighteen 

 feet and eight inches; the height is forty- 

 three feet and the spread sixty-three feet. 

 At the point where the branches emerge 



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