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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Piece of Charter Oak
Object Number
1915-18-1
Description
Piece of wood from Charter Oak. Irregular shape. Has silver plaque mounted on one side "Charter Oak/Hartford Conn./Oct. 31, 1687".
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
Materials
Social Tags (experimental)
