Existing comment:
A Piece of the Elm Tree Formerly
Standing in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
under which
George Washington
took command of the
American Army
July 3, 1775
Presented
by
The City of Cambridge
1924
Wood from the Washington Elm Tree:
By tradition, it was under the Washington Elm -- a tree in Cambridge, Massachusetts -- that George Washington took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775. Publication in 1876 of a fictional eyewitness journal, The Diary of Dorothy Dudley, furthered the legend. In 1923, when the tree was diseased, it was cut into 1,000 pieces that were distributed to the state legislatures and the public. |