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Indiana Photo of the Day - Constitution Elm - Corydon, IN
During the summer of 1816, forty-three delegates
gathered to write the first
Indiana Constitution. The weather was hot and
sultry. The delegates gathered under a massive elm tree to draft the
Constitution in its cool shade. The tree outlasted that Constitution, which the
State replaced with a new one in 1851. The tree died of Dutch Elm Disease in
1925. Workers removed the limbs and coated the trunk with tar to preserve it. It
now resides in a sandstone monument a short distance from the first State
House. Small pieces of this elm are still for sale in the gift shop.
© Paul Wonning 2016 |
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