STAMFORD LIBERTY TREE MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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 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
- Park Tree Memorial Plaques
- FORT STAMFORD PARK
- 06902
- BILL COUGHLIN
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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