Posted on: January 30th, 2025 in In Memoriam-Trees |
Populus trichocarpa – Black cottonwood
The Riding Whip Tree died in 2024. The stump can still be viewed at GeerCrest Farm along with the designated GeerCrest Orchard. The tree’s story and a link to more information about the farm are below.
In 1854, fifteen-year-old Florinda Geer stuck her black cottonwood riding switch in the ground after returning from a horse ride. The stripling took root and grew to become …
Posted on: January 30th, 2025 in Heritage Tree Details |
Pseudotsuga menziesii – Douglas fir
When most other Douglas fir was logged to create farmland, this fir remained as a landmark on the 640-acre Donation Land Claim of Robert Valentine Short. A land surveyor, R.V. Short surveyed claims throughout the northern Willamette Valley, and in 1850 created the first plat of Portland. He was a member of the first Oregon Constitutional Convention, the first Yamhill County surveyor, and a state legislator.
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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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