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Washington Elm and Historic Trees Said to Shape America
The article recounts the Washington Elm in Cambridge as the site where Washington assumed command of the Continental Army on July 3 1775. It notes the elm’s age and historic status alongside the Charter Oak in Hartford and the Penn Treaty Elm in Philadelphia, with later commemorations and debates over their significance.
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John Dickinson Sherman
Washington Wi
America
Traftford
Philadelphia
Washington
Boston
Boston Common
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Plymouth
Sweet Waters
Lincolnshire
England
George Washington
John Adams
Adams
Congress of
Continental Army
Congress
Dauy
Patsy
New York
Cambridge
Oracle House
Tony the Lome
Hatrvard College
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lossing
Harvard University
American Tree Association
William Penn
Voltaire
Benjamin West
William Venn
Kkensi Fen
Surtford
Edmund Andros
New England
James II
Estwu