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		<title>&#8220;Famous Trees In Our City&#8221;</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[colonial times]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mabel Tripp Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Vermeulen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With this Friday being Arbor Day, let us take a moment to examine some of this city&#8217;s famous foliage. Independence Elm (1781) During colonial times the city was just two muddy streets&#8211; a small collection of homes surrounding the church and graveyard. Word of the Continental Congress was slow to reach our isolated hamlet, but by 1781 &#8220;independence&#8221; was the buzzword. A copy of the Bill of Rights was posted on an enormous elm tree in the cemetery behind a church. For weeks during July and August the community gathered around the tree to debate the war against England. (By this point, the outcome of the war had actually been decided, but news was slow to reach the hinterlands). The English garrison, disturbed by the rambunctious rabble-rousers, tore down the document and posted a guard in graveyard. The city population, whipped into a frenzy of anti-Anglo agitation, and wanting to strike a blow before the war was officially over, attacked the guard and drove him from the cemetery. He returned moments later with reinforcements. According to city legend, a pitched battled ensued, and five villagers were killed. The battle passed into history, and the elm was celebrated as a meeting [...]]]></description>
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