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The Arkansas Council Oak. at Dardanella, Ark. 



CALIFORNIA 



Fremont Oak, near Alameda, under which Captain Fremont 

 camped with 62 men. including 5 Delaware Indians and the 

 redoubtable Kit Carson. 



Hangman's Tree, in the old mining town. Second Garrote, near 

 Groveland, Tuolumne County, said to owe its name to its misshapen 

 ugliness. Groveland was first called First Garrote because a man 

 was garroted there. 



The Junipero or Vizcanio-Serra Oak, which stood near the gateway 

 of the Presidio of Monterey. Under it the ceremony of taking pos- 

 session of California for Spain was enacted. The tree was named 

 for Padre Junipero Serra, leader of the Franciscans who established 



