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Woodward Hill Cemetery, 508 South Queen Street, Lancaster PA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Not far from the grave of American President James Buchanan and on one of the highest points in the city, this elm tree stood for as much as 280\u00a0years. The tree was \u201cprobably carried across the Atlantic Ocean and planted as a sapling by English settlers just 6\u00a0years or so\u00a0after Lancaster –then called Hickory Town —\u00a0was settled in 1718.\u201d [Ad Crable,\u00a0Lancaster Online,\u00a0<\/em>November 20, 2006] \u00a0As such it \u201cwas the last living link to our proud city\u2019s colonial days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite devoted care from arborist Ben Tresselt III, the tree succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease in 2006, which was more than a decade after most other elms in Lancaster had been wiped out by the fungus. When it died, this tree was the state champion English Elm with a height of 95 feet, a trunk circumference of 216 inches, and a spread of 91 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old Road Furniture (Intercourse, PA) still makes custom tables from the elm\u2019s wood (last photo), and as of 2019 the tree\u2019s great stump continued to grace the cemetery\u2019s grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This amazing species is so resistant to rot in saturated conditions that its hollowed trunks were once used as water pipes. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200b(First photo by Ad Crable)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ben Tresselt III; Ad Crable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1194,"template":"","tax_tree-categories":[16],"acf":{"scientific_name":"Ulmus procera"},"yoast_head":"\nEnglish Elm - Tree Treasures of Lancaster County<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/trees\/english-elm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"English Elm - Tree Treasures of Lancaster County\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not far from the grave of American President James Buchanan and on one of the...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/trees\/english-elm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tree Treasures of Lancaster County\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-07T10:52:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/56A_Elm_Crable_2004.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"807\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/trees\/english-elm\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lancastercountytrees.org\/trees\/english-elm\/\",\"name\":\"English Elm - 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