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Monday, March 5, 2018
Sunday’s Nor’easter claimed President George Washington’s 227-year-old tree guarding the first president’s Mount Vernon tomb. The Canadian Hemlock was planted by Washington in 1791, and was toppled by the 70 mph gusts last night.
The tree was protected as a national landmark, but the carcass’s future was yet to be determined. According to Mount Vernon officials, it was the the best documented tree on the property originating as a gift from New York Governor George Clinton arriving in a whisky barrel. The storm claimed many other trees as well.
President Washington’s tomb escaped any damage during the collapse or from other weather related events. Washington’s Hemlock joins a list of historic tree’s recently falling like the Jackson Magnolia at the White House and a Sequoia in California’s Calaveras Big Trees State Park known for the tunnel cut into the trunk.