Juglans nigra Massachusetts (Saugus)
Item Information
- Title:
- Juglans nigra Massachusetts (Saugus)
- Title (alt.):
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Tree habit with house
- Description:
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Juglans nigra Massachusetts (Saugus). Parker on Cheever walnut on Central Street. 65 ft. in height, girth of trunk 13 1/2 ft.
- Photographer:
- Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930
- Collector:
- Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930
- Date:
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April 12, 1924
- Format:
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Photographs
- Genre:
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Glass negatives
- Location:
- Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library
- Collection (local):
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Photographs of Ernest Henry Wilson
- Series:
- New England Trees
- Subjects:
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Tree trunks
Walnut
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Saugus
- Extent:
- 1 negative : glass ; 15.5 x 20.5 cm.
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/1r66j413n
- Terms of Use:
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- Notes (historical):
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This is a detail of the same 1924 photograph of the legendary black walnut (Juglans nigra) tree on the grounds of F.W. Cheever in Saugus, Massachusetts, close to the Soldier’s Monument. Supposedly, the famous Putitan minister Cotton Mather (1663-1728) stopped to rest beneath the shade of the Cheever Walnut when he traveled by horseback from Boston to Salem to witness the witchcraft executions on Gallows Hill in 1692. In 1891, John Robinson characterized the Cheever Walnut as “the largest black walnut in this vicinity.” In the same year, it was reported as being 50-60 feet tall, 3 feet in diameter, with a circumference of 13 feet at 5 feet from the ground. It was supposedly a very old tree, at least 216 years old. It came from England, and is an “excellent example of the re-importation of American trees to America.” The black walnut was one of the very first American trees to become popular in Europe. When part of the trunk was cut down, it was placed in the Peabody Museum as an artifact. (John Robinson, Our Trees: A popular account of the trees in the streets and gardens of Salem, and of the native trees of Essex County, Massachusetts, with the location of trees, and historical and botanical notes [Salem: N.A. Horton & Son, 1891).
- Accession #:
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13338
- Identifier:
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AAW-052
M-52
