1434 14TH AVE S. NASHVILLE, TN 37212HISTORICAL TREE PRESERVATION Common Name: Shumard OakScientific Name: Quercus Shumardii William Edmondson, born about 1874 of former slave parents in the Hillsboro area of Davidson County, worked as a railroad and hospital laborer...
Platanus occidentalis This impressive tree stands ninety-four feet tall and sixteen feet in circumference, with a crown spread of 165 feet. It was planted in 1864 from a sprout along nearby Daddy’s Creek near the Thomas Center home site. Center became the first...
Quercus alba Back in 1835 when Samuel Watson established the Sycamore Milling Company with power from nearby Sycamore Creek, this white oak stood on a hill overlooking the mill and village. At its height, more than one hundred families existed around the mill, which...
Pinus strobus In 1832, seventy-year-old Samuel Smith brought a party of 350 settlers including his family through the Cumberland Gap to settle in Tennessee. He was given a thousand acres of land in Montgomery County as a pension for his service in the Revolutionary...
