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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Piece of Charter Oak
Object Number
ca1896-01-40
Description
Small box made of six piece of glass bound at ends with embossed gold paper. Inside of box is an irregular shaped piece of the charter Oak. Note inside of box says "Charter Oak July 7, 1856, the year it fell and was cut up"
Comment
The Charter Oak was an unusually large white oak tree growing, from around the 12th or 13th century until 1856, on what the English colonists named Wyllys Hill, in Hartford. The name "Charter Oak" stems from the local legend in which a cavity within the tree was used in late 1687 as a hiding place for the document that embodied the colony's charter.
Category
Date Made
1856
Dimensions
1 3/4" square x 1" high
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