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Figure 17.— Twin pines. Beaverhead National Forest. Mont. 



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Hessian Beeches, at Bay Ridge, beneath which., tradition has it. 

 Hessians camped during the Revolution. 



Treaty Chestnut Tree (now dead) of Phillipse Manor, near New 

 York City, which stood in plain sight from the Albany Post Road. 

 Under its branches, it is believed, was signed the last treaty between 

 the whites and the Wequadequeek Indians, who lived in that locality. 

 (See trees associated particularly with writers and literature, p. -19.) 



Verplanck Kentucky Coffeetree {Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) Kock) 

 directly in front of the historic Verplanck mansion at Fishkill-on- 

 the-Hudson. occupied for some time during the Revolution by Baron 

 von Steuben. This mansion was also the scene of the first meeting 

 of the Society of the Cincinnati. 



Caledonia Council Elm. standing on grounds of the Caledonia 

 High School, once marked the meeting place of the Iroquois Indians 

 on the main trail between Albany and Niagara Falls. Many pris- 

 oners of war were executed near this tree. 



Council Elm Tree, in the Johnstown cemetery. Johnstown. Under 

 this tree Governor Tryon. Sir William Johnson (Commissioner of 

 Indian Affairs), Joseph Brant, and the Mohawk Indians of Lower 

 Castle met in conference on July 28, 1772. Important conferences 



