FAMOUS TREES 3^ 



MISSISSIPPI 



Crawford Oak at Biloxi is famous as a tree under which Indians 

 roasted their oysters. Tradition also says that Jean Lafitte and his 

 band of pirates buried their treasures at its roots. 



Live Oaks at Beauvoir. Beauvoir is now a home for old soldiers, 

 who enjoy their shade and see that the trees are well preserved. 



Battle-Scarred Oak of Harrisburg. In its trunk a cannon ball 

 was embedded during the historic Battle of Harrisburg near Tupelo, 

 July 14, 1864. Confederate dead lie buried beneath its gnarled 

 branches. 



Two post oaks at Brices' Cross Road. In Lee County, 5 miles 

 west of Baldwyn, are two post oaks famous because a Federal 

 battery was stationed between them, on June 10, 1864, when the 

 Union forces under General Sturgis were defeated by the Con- 

 federates under General Forrester. 



Confederate Tree. An old red oak which stands on North Lamar 

 Street in Oxford, is claimed to be one of the largest, oldest, and most 

 historic trees in the South. Its history dates back to 1842. As 

 a small tree it served as a starting point from the town of Oxford 

 after the site had been purchased from the Indians. During the 

 War between the States, it is said, two of General Forrester's 

 spies hid in this tree and observed the Union Army march into the 

 town. General Grant is said to have made his headquarters beneath 

 its branches when the Union Army invaded the town. 



MISSOURI 



Daniel Boone's "Judgment Tree," an elm in the Femme Osage dis- 

 trict, near which Daniel Boone held court while commandant of the 

 district. 



MONTANA 



Twin Pines, Beaverhead National Forest, where Indian sharp- 

 shooters are said to have been located during a battle between Nez- 

 perce Indians, under Chief Joseph, and soldiers and citizens under 

 General Gibbon, August 9, 1877 (fig. 17). 



NEBRASKA 



Lone Tree (cottonwood) on the north bank of the Platte River 

 about 3 miles southwest of the site of Central City. Beneath its 

 spreading shade, Indian chiefs are said to have held their councils. 

 Lone Tree Ranch, established in the neighborhood in 1858, was named 

 in honor of the old tree, and so were the post office and railroad sta- 

 tion 3 miles distant. In 1865 the big cottonwood was felled by a 

 violent storm. In 1911 a stone monument in the form of a cotton- 

 wood stump was erected on the spot. 



NEW JERSEY 



Stockton Catalpas, Princeton, a memorial to Richard Stockton, 

 the well-known signer of the Declaration of Independence, who is 

 believed to have brought the trees from England in 1762. They 

 are also called "Independence Trees" because they are in flower over 

 the Fourth of July. 



