FOR T STANWIX SAPLING 



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Submitted by Charles M. Omart, Rome 



THIS tree was spoken of by historians as a sapling in 

 1804 and stood in Fort Stanwix. A fort erected by the 

 English Government in 1758 and taken possession of by the 

 American troops in 1776 and from which the first American 

 flag was flown August 6, 1776. Also in this fort the treaty 

 was signed between the Iroquois Indians and the United 

 States by which they signed a vast portion of their lands in 

 the West to the U. S. in 1788. 



This fort stood at a point which is now at the corner of 

 Spring and E. Dominick Street in the city of Rome, N. Y. 

 Won $2. 



