Diameter - 24 ft.
This tree was cut in 1875, and a 16 ft. section sent to the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Only the outer shell was exhibited, the parts being reassembled after shipment. Eastern people refused to accept the exhibit as part of a single tree and called it the "California Hoax." It took 2 men 9 days to chop down the tree. Its upper trunk is the scarred log down slope from the Grant Tree. Ladies from a nearby logging camp used to conduct Sunday school services for their children upon the stump.| HM Number | HMTRQ |
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| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Saturday, October 4th, 2014 at 11:40pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 11S E 323778 N 4068704 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 36.74773333, -118.97393333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 36° 44.864', W 118° 58.436' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 36° 44' 51.84" N, 118° 58' 26.16" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 559 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 1000-1198 Unnamed Road, Hume CA 93628, US |
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