NORWALK LIBERTY TREE MEMORIAL PLAQUE
THIS 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 PROTECT OF THE HATED STAMP ACT. FROM THAT DAY FORWARD THAT ELM BECAME KNOWN AS "THE LIBERTY TREE."
ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 14, 1765, THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON AWAKENED TO DISCOVER TWO EFFIGIES SUSPENDED FROM AN ELM TREE IN PROTECT OF THE HATED STAMP ACT. FROM THAT DAY FORWARD THAT ELM BECAME KNOWN AS "THE LIBERTY TREE."
Listing Details
- Public
- REVOLUTIONARY WAR
- Street Tree Memorial Plaques
- 125 EAST AVENUE
- 06851
- BILL COUGHLIN
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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