Jan 15, 2025
This massive White Oak, Quercus alba, is located atop the Harriman Cemetery Hill, just below the Walden Ridge. The town of Harriman was founded in 1891, but the 193-inch circumference of the oak testifies to its position long before the town’s recognition. The old...
Nov 27, 2018
Under this White Oak in 1772, Col. Jacob Brown signed a treaty with Oconostota and other Cherokee chiefs for tracts of land along the Nolichucky River. Col. Brown was a trader, store owner, smithy, soldier and founder of the Nolichucky settlement that united with...
Jan 17, 2018
Perhaps one of the best-known trees of Tennessee, this beech famously features Daniel Boone’s carving: “D. Boon cilled a bar in year 1760”. The tree stood on a knoll east of the campsite of the first white settler in Tennessee, William Bean, and was also used as...
Jan 17, 2018
Quercus alba This magnificent white oak stood in the DeFriece City Park in Bristol and was alive in 1814 when James King bought the property from Evan Shelby, a major during the Revolutionary War. The Reverend James King developed the land as a plantation and left...
Jan 17, 2018
Ulmus americana This venerable old elm on the banks of the north fork of the Holston River became one of the most famous trees in Tennessee. It stood throughout the early history of the state and witnessed the struggle for statehood from Virginia and North Carolina....
