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General Houston smoked the peace pipe with his Indian friends "and 

 with his 'paleface' comrades planned many a political campaign." 

 J. L. Clark, Sam Houston State Teachers College, Huntsville, advises 

 that nuts or seedlings from this tree may be had for planting on school 

 grounds, in parks, and in other appropriate places. 



Santa Anna's Surrender Tree, immortalized in a noted painting, is 

 the oak under which Gen. Sam Houston lay Avounded after the battle 

 of San Jacinto (Apr. 21, 1836) when the captive Mexican General 

 Santa Anna was brought before him. Beneath this tree today stands a 

 granite marker, a gift of San Jacinto Chapter of the Daughters of 

 the Republic of Texas in commemoration of that eventful surrender. 



The Clay Oak, Hanover County, a post oak to which the "Millboy 

 of the Slashes," Henry Clay, tied his horse when sent on errands to a 

 mill near his birthplace in a district called "the Slashes" — hence the 

 sobriquet. The oak bears a marker to this effect. Though nearly 150 

 years have passed, the ruins of the dam at the site of the old mill may 

 still be seen. The ground is now occupied by the plant of the Ashland 

 Lumber Co. and may be reached by turning Avest at the Ash Cake 

 Inn on the Richmond-Washington HigliAvay (58, p. If). 



Stratford Horsechestnut, Stratford-on-the-Potomac, family home 

 of the Lees, mentioned in Gen. Robert E. Lee's diary as having been 

 planted by his mother, Anne Carter Lee. 



Maury Walnut (black), Fredericksburg, proudly spreads its 

 branches over the home of the "Pathfinder of the Seas," MattheAV Fon- 

 taine Maury. (See also Trees that haA r e had special protection, 

 p. 59.) 



The Martha Custis Yew, at Williamsburg, an English yew, which 

 tradition claims was planted by Martha Custis Avhile still the wife of 

 Daniel Parke Custis. It is in the park area of the Eastern State Hos- 

 pital (58, p. 21). 



WISCONSIN 



"The Forest of Fame." in Mount Vernon, Wis., Avas started in 1916 

 by the late John Sweet Donald, one-time Secretary of State and pro- 

 fessor of agricultural economics at the UniA^ersity of Wisconsin. 

 Within the forest boundaries are trees from birthplaces of former 

 Presidents of the United States, famous generals of the Avorld, and 

 personages associated with religion, science, music, agriculture, com- 

 merce. While Professor Donald Avas Secretary of State he began the 

 Forest of Fame by purchasing a field which had once been a beautiful 

 forest and planting therein trees from George Washington's Mount 

 Vernon estate. The first trees were planted on Arbor Day, 1916. 



TREES ASSOCIATED WITH THE BUILDING OF THE NATION 



If a contest Avere to be held in the naming of the three best-knoAvn 

 trees associated with the early history of our country, it is likely that 

 the winners would be as f oIIoavs : 



The Penn Treaty Elm, at Shackamaxon, Pa., which is hoav in the 

 Kensington section of Philadelphia, memorable as the place where 

 William Penn concluded his famous treaty Avith the Indians in 1682. 



