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SOUTH CAROLINA 



Historic Red Oak, at Chesterfield. The first flag ever thrown to the 

 breeze in the South on which was printed "Immediate separate State 

 action" was girded to this tree. 



Spy Oak, at Hillcrest, High Hills of the Santee, near Stateburg, 

 is so^ called because two Tory spies were hanged therefrom by 

 General Sumter's men during the Revolution {73). 



SOUTH DAKOTA 



Struck-by-the-Ree's Tree, at Yankton (named for the Sioux chief 

 who bore this name). Here the Yanktown tribe of the Sioux Indians 

 met with Lewis and Clark, and together they held "a grand council, 

 powwow, and carousal." The name comes from a savage encounter 

 between the Sioux and the Ree Indians. Struck-by-the-Ree was 

 friendly to the whites, partly because he was proud of having been 

 wrapped in the American flag by Captain Lewis, who, in doing so, 

 prophesied that the boy would become a chief of the tribe. 



TENNESSEE 



Daniel Boone's "Bar Tree," a beech in Washington County, in the 

 extreme northeastern portion of the State was a living record in the 

 life of probably the first white man to venture into the heavy forests 

 of the middle Appalachians (67). This tree bore the inscription: 

 "D. Boon cilled A BAR On Tree in ThE YEar 1760" (fig. 22). This 

 tree is no longer living. 



Pemberton Oak, on the Cherokee National Forest, bears a tablet 

 placed there by the Sycamore Shoals Chapter of the Daughters of 

 the American Revolution, telling that Col. John Pemberton here 

 mustered troops for the Battle of Kings Mountain. Kings Moun- 

 tain is a ridge in Gaston County, N. C, and York County, S. C. 

 About iy 2 miles south of the boundary line between the two States, 

 the Battle of Kings Mountain was fought on October 7, 1780, the 

 Americans being victorious. This victory largely contributed to the 

 success of General Greene's campaign against Lord Cornwallis. 



Treaty Oak, in Austin, near the west bank of the Colorado River, 

 a mammoth live oak estimated to be over 500 years old. The Co- 

 manche and Tejas Indians often met for feats of skill and endurance 

 and for religious rites beneath this tree. They called it "The Father 

 of the Forest," and regarded it with superstitious reverence. Tra- 

 dition has it that Stephen F. Austin signed the first boundary line 

 treaty between the settlers and the Indians under this tree, the line 

 being so placed that the tree stood within the settlers' lands. 



Masonic Charter Oak, near Brazoria, Tex., under whose sturdy 

 branches Texas declared her independence. Here the second pro- 

 visional government of Texas was organized on March 2, 1836. 



VIRGINIA 



Hessian apple trees, 3 miles north of Winchester. During the Rev- 

 olution, Hessian soldiers planted an orchard here. Sixteen of these 



