Tree Category: History

These three 125-year-old trees originated from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (verified). Visitors to the...

No tree in Lancaster County impacts more people than the Christmas tree that is erected...

White Oak (Witness Oak Jr.) 55 Fairview Avenue, Marietta PA This tree (photo not yet...

One of the county’s nicer Black Walnuts, with a trunk circumference at breast height of...

Planted in 1999, this tree is a certified direct descendant of a dogwood growing at...

This tree, a female, is the certified direct descendant of an ash growing at Dwight...

In 1999 Quarryville Elementary put together a terrific tree project.  Working with Principal Kathleen Hood...

Planted in 1999, this tree is the certified direct descendant of the last living apple...

On March 16, 1918 — just 7 years after construction of the Grand Lodge Hall...

The fourth photograph displayed here was taken in 1896 and shows David H. Huber and his...

This Silver Leaf Linden (identified as such by the College) is one of the most...

This tree stands in front of an old farmhouse, parts of which could be 240...

Not far from the obelisk that marks the resting place of Civil War General John...

As a successor to the now-fallen White Ash that served as Franklin and Marshall College’s...

This tree, about 85 feet tall and 17 feet in trunk circumference, was estimated to...

This tree is a certified direct descendant of the sycamore under which Martin Luther King...

Six outstanding ginkgo trees, identical in age (about 130 years) but not size, live in Lancaster Cemetery.  The background...

Planted in 1999, this tree is a certified direct descendant of a Tulip Tree planted...

This tree (first photo, 2019) was planted more recently than the rest of Quarryville Elementary’s...

In 1777 congregants of Donegal Presbyterian Church gathered with Pastor Colin McFarquhar under this nearby...

This is an offspring of the famous Wye Oak in Wye Mills MD. The 460-year-old...