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Penn Charter Trees - Under Construction- I will be posting a spreadsheet of these trees, their locations and measurements. ScottWilliam Penn came to Pennsylvania in 1682. Pennsylvania was a great woodland at this time. Recognizing this Penn included a rule in his grants of land that a portion of each tract was to remain native forest. Many new land owners did this, which has given us several trees that remain from this time. In 1932 on the 250th anniversary of the William Penn's arrival to Pennsylvania, a book titled Penn's Woods 1682-1932 was written by Edward E. Wildman, Director of Science Education of Philadelphia Public Schools, that tried to locate trees dating from this colonial period. Again in 1982, on the 300th anniversary of Penn's arrival another book titled Penn's Woods 1682-1982 ,was written by Halfred W. Wertz and M. Joy Callender. This book retraced the steps of the original author in an attempt to rediscover these trees. Many trees still remained, many were lost, and several trees that were not on the original list were added.
We at Pa Bigtrees.com have made it our mission to, again, locate these trees and present them here to you. Each tree is being identified with GPS to prevent "losing" them in the future. Many of them are difficult to find. They are off the beaten path and the directions in the books are commonly vague. The original book used road numbers that are not used today. Often owners of the trees will ask, "What can I do to help this tree?" Our response is always, "Nothing, the tree made it this far without help, it can go on by itself." If you choose to visit these magnificent trees, leave them as you found them, and take only photographs.
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