Posted on: January 29th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Fagus sylvatica – Copper beech
This European copper beech tree has witnessed more than 100 years of urban development. In the 1890s, Joseph and Mary Watson planted this beech tree in front of their home in what was a quiet neighborhood on the edge of Portland. The Watson family had deep ties to Oregon’s iron and banking industries and Portland city politics. In the 1960s, Portland State University purchased the site …
Posted on: January 29th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Populus trichocarpa – Black cottonwood
This black cottonwood is prominent in photographs taken in 1900 and 1901 to document where the vote for a Provisional Government in Oregon took place. Francis X. Matthieu, the last living participant of the 1843 vote, is shown setting the location of this site in 1900 and unveiling the monument here in the ceremony of 1901. The area around the monument is believed to be the …
Posted on: January 29th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Acer macrophyllum– Bigleaf maple
This bigleaf maple is believed to have been a meeting place for Clackamas Indian people and by tradition is called the Pow-Wow Tree. It marked the site of the first Clackamas County Fair in 1860 and the first Oregon State Fair in 1861. It was later honored at the 1937 Gladstone Pow-Wow celebration and recognized again in 1979 as an American Bicentennial tree. The tree has become …
Posted on: January 29th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Pseudotsuga menziesii – Douglas-fir
This tree was a meeting place for the early townspeople and Grange members of Oswego. A peg was driven into the tree for hanging a lantern to light these meetings. In 1852, before a proper building could be erected, Sunday school classes were held under the tree. The Peg Tree is the lone survivor of what was once a great row of Douglas-firs that lined the road …
Posted on: January 29th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Prunus avium – Black Tartarian or Republican
It is believed this tree was planted in the mid 1800s by Eugene Skinner, founder of the City of Eugene in 1853. The tree is within the boundaries of Skinner’s 1846 land claim. By 1850 the site of the tree was owned by George Owen, a former Eugene City Councilor, lumberman, and philanthropist. Mr. Owen donated the site to the city for use as …
Posted on: January 28th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Ulmus americana – American Elm
The American elms lining the streets of this community were planted by the Oregon Nursery Company (ORENCO) in 1912. The company was one of the largest nurseries in the US and was employee-owned. The nearby light-rail line follows the old Oregon Electric Railroad line that shipped nursery stock throughout the nation. Company towns such as Orenco, built to house workers, were common in Oregon and were …
Posted on: January 28th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Picea sitchensis– Sitka spruce
The forces that shaped this unique Sitka Spruce have been debated for many years. Whether natural events of possibly Native Americans were the cause remains a mystery. The tree measures more than 14 feet across at its base and has no central trunk. Instead, limbs extend horizontally as much as 30 feet before turning upward. Its is 105 feet tall and is estimated to be around 250 …
Posted on: January 28th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Picea sitchensis: Sitka spruce
This tree is a remnant of an ancient coastal forest cared for by indigenous peoples for millennia. Oregon industries logged most of these giants at the turn of 20th century, reserving this tree to seed a new forest and witness the development of Lincoln City. The community named the tree Nuu-k’wii-daa-naa~-ye’-“Our Ancestor” in the local Siletz Dee-ni language-to honor its importance to communities past and present.
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Posted on: January 17th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Tillia americana; Wisteria floribunda
This wisteria vine and its companion linden tree, whose “partnership” is a local landmark, were planted in approximately 1881 by Brownsville entrepreneurs John and Elizabeth Moyer. With its distinctive braided trunk, the wisteria relies on the linden tree for support and to vividly display its profuse spring blossoms. It is the success of this long-standing partnership that makes them a unique addition to the Oregon Heritage Tree …
Posted on: January 17th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Pseudotsuga menziesii– Douglas-fir
This Douglas Fir was raised from seed carried to the moon by astronaut Stuart Roosa of the Apollo 14 moon mission in 1971. It was the first “Moon Tree” to be planted in Oregon and was planted here by Governor Bob Straub on Arbor Day, April 30, 1976 for America’s bicentennial.
Tree Facts
Approx. height: 63′
Age: 31 years
Circumference: 19″
Dedicated on: April 11, 2003
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Location: The Moon Tree is located in …
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