Series I: Cambridge Common

Links to all the Postcard Collection gallery pages and the Finding Aid can be found by clicking here. *Postcard was used.

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Washington Elm Debate Rages On: Fact or Legend?

The Washington Elm Tradition by Samuel Francis Batchelder The famous Washington Elm, standing in the middle of Garden Street at its junction with Mason Street, was the first of a line of six magnificent elms planted along Garden Street, the westerly border of the “Cow Commons,” about 1700. The second stood at the corner of…

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