THE FIRST LOCUST 



Submitted by Mrs. Marion P. Makay, Sea Cliff 



THE locust tree in the picture is said to be the first 

 ancestor of locust trees in New York State. It stands 

 on the grounds of Isaac R. Coles at Glen Cove, Long Island, 

 and is healthy and strong, measuring more than twelve feet 

 in circumference. It was planted in 1680 by Captain John 

 Sands, for whom Sand's Point, N. V. was named. Captain 

 Sands brought it as a seedling from Virginia and it was 

 given to a relative then living at the Coles homestead. 

 During the Revolution the smaller trees which grew from 

 this first one were cut down for posts by the Revolutionary 

 soldiers so that the big tree stands alone in that section, and 

 ma)' be regarded as the one which was the progenitor of all 

 locust trees on Long Island and throughout the State. 

 Won $2. 



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