FAMOUS TREES 



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west boundary of the town on Wooster Street. It was on the line of 

 retreat of the British to Ridgefielcl after they had burned Danbury. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



Signal Station Cherry Tree, in center of Fort Stevens Park on 

 Georgia Avenue, Washington. Near this tree President Lincoln 

 watched the battle of Fort Stevens, when the Confederates under 

 Gen. Jubal A. Early threatened the city of Washington in June 1864. 

 Beneath this tree are many white markers of the graves of soldiers 

 who fell there. 



Treaty Oak in the old Dean estate on Temple Heights, at the inter- 

 section of Florida and Connecticut Avenues, Washington, D. C. (fig. 

 11). Under this tree Chief Mannacasset, of the Anacostan Indian 



Figure 1 1 



-The Treaty Oak, Temple Heights, at Florida and Connecticut 

 Avenues. Washington, D. C. 



