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trees of the Fameuse variety have survived, and most of them are 

 bearing regularly. 



Cedars of Lebanon. Arlington Cemetery. (See Trees associated 

 with educators or educational institutions, p. 46.) 



Chippoke Oak, Chippoke plantation. Surry Comity, takes its 

 name from the Indian chief. Chippoke, who was a friend of the 

 early settlers. 



White Oaks in Abbs Valley, Taxewell County, at the grave of 

 James Moore, who was one of the first persons killed in the Indian 

 massacre of 1786. 



Sheep-shearing Oak. one of the most famous trees in Arlington 

 National Cemetery. It was the scene of the shearing of a valuable 

 flock of imported Merino sheep owned by George Washington Parke 

 Custis. This oak is estimated to be 300 years old. 



Tarleton's Oak. Charlottesville. Tradition has it that under this 

 oak the British cavalryman, Banastre Tarleton. planned his raid on 

 Charlottesville on June 4. 1781. He attempted to capture Governor 

 Jefferson and the legislature, but Capt. Jack Jouett, by taking a 

 short route, arrived in time to warn the patriots of their danger. 



Tory Oaks, white oaks in the Black Lick Valley in western Wythe 

 County. Gen. William Campbell's men surrounded a band of 

 plundering Tories and hung them to these two nearby oaks. 



Original Lynching Tree (walnut) on plantation near Alt a Vista. 

 According to the inscription on a marker near this giant black 

 walnut, under it — 



Colonel Charles Lynch, William Preston. Robert Adams. Jr., James Calloway, 

 and others held an informal court for the trial of Tories and criminals, 1780. 

 From this rude justice, the term "lynch law" was evolved. 



The Virginia Conservation and Development Commission erected 

 the marker in 1929. 



WASHINGTON 



A western red cedar bearing the inscription. "Washington Terri- 

 torial Volunteers camped here June 2, 1856.*' was recently discovered 

 in the upper Cedar River watershed, Snoqualmie National Forest, 

 It is recorded that in 1856 Regular Army troops were camped at 

 Snoqualmie Falls in order to watch Snoqualmie Pass for Indian 

 raiding parties from east of the mountains. Without question, the 

 Territorial Volunteers were watching Yakima Pass for the same 

 reason at the time the inscription was made. 



WEST VIRGINIA 



Corner Oaks, at the foot of Marlins Mountain at Marlinton (10, 

 pp. Jjl '2-4.17) . marked: "These oaks are said to be the oldest corner 

 trees in the Mississippi Valley/' They also bear the name and date : 

 "General Andrew Lewis, 1751." 



Blennerhasset Sycamore, on what is known as Blennerhasset Island 

 in the Ohio River about 2 miles below Parkersburg, with a large hole 

 in the trunk, in which Blennerhasset took refuge when pursued for 

 his connection with the Burr conspiracy to separate the Western 

 States from the rest of the United States (1807). 



