ANSONIA AMERICAN LIBERTY ELM MEMORIAL TREE
THE AMERICAN LIBERTY ELM WAS NAMED AFTER "THE LIBERTY TREE: OUR COUNTRY'S FIRST SYMBOL OF FREEDOM."
ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 14, 1765, THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON AWAKENED TO DISCOVER TWO EFFIGIES SUSPENDED FROM AN ELM TREE IN PROTEST OF THE HATED STAMP ACT. FROM THAT DAY FORWARD THAT ELM BECAME KNOWN AS "THE LIBERTY TREE."
SEE ALSO-ANSONIA AMERICAN LIBERTY ELM MEMORIAL TREE PLAQUE
ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 14, 1765, THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON AWAKENED TO DISCOVER TWO EFFIGIES SUSPENDED FROM AN ELM TREE IN PROTEST OF THE HATED STAMP ACT. FROM THAT DAY FORWARD THAT ELM BECAME KNOWN AS "THE LIBERTY TREE."
SEE ALSO-ANSONIA AMERICAN LIBERTY ELM MEMORIAL TREE PLAQUE
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Listing Details
- Public
- REVOLUTIONARY WAR
- Park Tree Memorial Plaques
- 2002
- ANSONIA GREEN
- 06401
- MICHAEL HERRICK
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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