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Eastern Poplar

Date: 1979
Description: An unidentified man, with jacket, hat and gloves, is dwarfed by the forked trunk of a specimen of Populus deltoides, judged in 1976 to be the larges...
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Marker Tree

Date: 1971
Description: Two large branches of a bur oak near the Horicon Marsh, twisted to point in the same direction, show evidence of human manipulation at the time the tree wa...
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The Phelps Oak

Date: 1952
Description: An unidentified man, probably H.M. Phelps, posing with his right hand resting on the massive trunk of a bur oak which grew on the Phelps farm three miles w...
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The Columbus Cottonwood

Date: 1982
Description: An unidentified man and boy, probably John Crombie and his son, posing next to the large trunk of an Eastern poplar, Populus deltoides on the Crombi...

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