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Handbook of Texas Online: TREES
TREES . Texas
has between 255 and 281 species of native trees in ninety-one
genera and forty-seven plant families. Tree experts rarely agree
about the figures because of controversy over the identification
of some trees. Does eastern sugar maple ( Acer saccharum )
actually occur in
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Handbook of Texas Online: TREE FARMING
privately owned timberland by 1984. Nationally Texas ranks
sixth in the total number of certified tree farms and tenth in
total acres. The key requirement for tree farm certification is
a management plan that includes as the major objective the production
of trees as a repeated crop. Other objectives include
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Handbook of Texas Online: STATE TREE
STATE TREE .
The pecan was made the official state tree of Texas by an act
of the Thirty-sixth Legislature in regular session, 1919.
Acts of the Fortieth Legislature, 1927, confirmed the choice.
Sentiment favoring the pecan as the state tree was fostered by
the request of Governor James
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Handbook of Texas Online: PEACH TREE, TX
PEACH TREE, TEXAS
(Jasper County). Peach Tree is at the junction of State Highway
63 and Farm Road 254, six miles west of Jasper and seventy-three
miles north of Beaumont in northern Jasper County. Early settlers
who came to the area before the Civil
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Handbook of Texas Online: PINE TREE, TX
PINE TREE, TEXAS .
Pine Tree, a rural community off Farm Road 1845 in eastern Gregg
County, was first settled in the mid-1840s and was named for a
large pine tree under which some of the early residents held religious
services. The Pine Tree Cumberland
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Handbook of Texas Online: PEACHTREE, TX
PEACH TREE, TEXAS
(Medina County). Peach Tree was a ranching community centered
near Middle Verde Creek, a mile west of Farm Road 689 and seventeen
miles north of Hondo in north central Medina County. In 1907 twenty-one
pupils attended the one-teacher Peach Tree School. The dispersed
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Handbook of Texas Online: ORIGINAL BURKETT PECAN
nuts from the parent of the original Burkett pecan
tree. When the boys told their father they found the pecans in
a squirrel nest, he urged them to return and find the tree that
bore them. After some searching they found the parent tree growing
on the south bank of
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Handbook of Texas Online: TREATY OAK
kill hardwood trees.
In spite of extensive efforts, only about one quarter of the tree
was saved. Cullen was tried and convicted of felony criminal mischief
and sentenced to nine years in prison.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: John A. Haislet, ed., Famous Trees
of Texas (College Station: Texas Forest Service
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Handbook of Texas Online: BIG TREE
raid, Satanta, Satank, and Big Tree arrived at Fort Sill to collect their rations. There Satanta boasted of his role in leading the Warren raid and implicated Big Tree and Satank. Sherman had the three chiefs arrested. Big Tree attempted unsuccessfully to escape by diving through a window. He was
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Handbook of Texas Online: PEACH TREE VILLAGE
on the railroad two miles
from Peach Tree Village. Soon the schools, commercial establishments,
and postal service were moved to Chester, causing Peach Tree Village
to die as a community. In 1912 Kirby erected a red brick chapel
at Peach Tree Village in honor of his parents and hired a
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Handbook of Texas Online: LONE TREE CREEK
LONE TREE CREEK
(Armstrong County). Lone Tree Creek rises north of the JA Ranch qv in southeastern Armstrong County (at 34°50' N, 101°11'
W) and runs southeast for six miles across part of Donley County
to
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Handbook of Texas Online: GUM TREE BRANCH
GUM TREE BRANCH .
Gum Tree Branch rises three miles south of Eagle Lake in southeastern
Colorado County (at 29°32' N, 96°18' W) and runs southeast
for thirteen miles to its mouth on West Bernard Creek, three miles
south of Lissie and thirteen miles northeast
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Handbook of Texas Online: PECAN INDUSTRY
valleys. The tree, one of the most
widely distributed trees in the state, is native to 152 counties
and is grown commercially in some thirty additional counties.
It is also widely used as a dual-purpose yard tree. The size and
quality of pecans are influenced by the number of
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Handbook of Texas Online: HOLLIDAY CREEK
176;55'
N, 98°28' W). On August 4, 1841, the Texan Santa Fe Expedition qv spent the night in a grove of trees on what is now known as Holliday
Creek. Indians were in the area, and the trees afforded protection
for
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Handbook of Texas Online: LONE TREE CREEK
LONE TREE CREEK
(Wharton County). Lone Tree Creek rises east of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Farm Road 102 two miles northeast
of Bonus and fifteen miles north of Wharton in northeastern Wharton
County (at 29°28' N, 96°15' W
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Handbook of Texas Online: CITRUS FRUIT CULTURE
century planted seven orange
trees on the Laguna Seca Ranch north of Edinburg in what is now
Hidalgo County. Oranges and satsumas, many from trees imported
from Japan, were produced along the Texas coast in fairly large
quantities as early as 1910, when 42,384 orange trees produced
10,694 boxes of
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Handbook of Texas Online: ZACHARY TAYLOR OAK
fleet of fishing boats
rescued Taylor and his stranded men and transported them to the
mainland, where they camped under the oak tree. Later Taylor and
his men made a successful landing at Corpus Christi.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: John A. Haislet, ed., Famous Trees
of Texas (College Station: Texas
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Handbook of Texas Online: CHOCTAW ROBINSON OAK
quot;Choctaw Bill,"
and the tree under which he preached became known as the "Choctaw
Robinson Oak."
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Nancy V. Cooley, "Special Deputy
to the Almighty," Texas Parade , November 1972. John
A. Haislet, ed., Famous Trees of Texas (College Station
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Handbook of Texas Online: COURTHOUSE CEDAR
a stone building. The present
courthouse, built in 1957, towers protectively above the red cedar
tree, whose existence is interwoven with the history of Brazos
County.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: John A. Haislet, ed., Famous Trees
of Texas (College Station: Texas Forest Service, 1970; 3d
ed. 1984).
John
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Handbook of Texas Online: PIGEON ROOST PRAIRIE
heavily forested Hardin County.
One holds that the birds' accumulated droppings killed the trees,
thus producing a prairie. Another holds that settlers deliberately
cut the trees in an effort to drive the pigeons away and that
the trees simply never grew back. Both agree that millions of
pigeons once roosted
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Handbook of Texas Online: MEDINA, TX
The dwarf trees produced regular-sized apples that were
40 percent sweeter than large-tree varieties and proved to be
an extremely efficient use of the land, with 1,000 to 2,500 trees
an acre. In 1989 the Texas Department of Agriculture qv declared Medina
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Handbook of Texas Online: CENTER CITY, TX
now U.S. 84). Citizens won
out, and in 1984 the live oak was still standing fifty feet south
of the highway in the middle of a dirt road between Goldthwaite
and Evant. The tree is included in Famous Trees of Texas
(1970, 1984). Although the tree's exact age
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Handbook of Texas Online: POWDER CREEK
once
covered in native grasses and scattered stands of oak trees. The
creek also was formerly lined with bois d'arc, sycamore, cottonwood,
and hackberry trees; where the creek passes around Bonham the
trees have been preserved. Powder Creek does not flood frequently
as it moves from northwest to east, but
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Handbook of Texas Online: TEXAS PALM
the trees in Texas, and none was reported more than
sixty miles above the Gulf. By 1986 only about 100 acres of Texas
palms existed in Texas, most of them clustered in thirty-two acres
of the Audubon Society's Sabal Palm Grove Sanctuary, located in
Cameron County; the tree was
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Handbook of Texas Online: FORESTS
open and easily accessible. Mesic
uplands and creekbottoms in other parts of eastern Texas also
contained large trees. Magnificent open forests of white oak,
beech, elm, water oak, and magnolia occurred in creekbottoms,
as did thick clumps of switch cane. In bottomlands, tree trunks
stood far apart and sometimes were
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Handbook of Texas Online: BAILEY CREEK
It runs through gently sloping rangeland surfaced with loams. Post oak and pecan trees grow along the first mile of the upper banks; there are few trees along the lower reaches.
Clark Wheeler
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Handbook of Texas Online: BURCH, VALENTINE IGNATIUS
married Helen Elmira Cauble, the daughter of Peter Cauble, qv and settled at Peach Tree Village in Tyler County ( see peach tree village, texas), where he managed the plantation of his father-in-law as well as his own property in several
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Handbook of Texas Online: RETAMA, TX
San Salvador
del Tule land grant (issued in 1798). The property was subdivided
for farming around 1925. Retama is the Spanish word for
the Parkinsonia thorn tree, a yellow-flowering tree native
to the Rio Grande Valley. qv
Frances W
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Handbook of Texas Online: JACK CREEK
51' W). It traverses a flat to moderately
rolling landscape with loamy to sandy surface soils and reddish
mottled clayey or loamy subsoils. Local vegetation consists predominantly
of pine and hardwood forests, mesquite trees, and, where trees
have been cut, grasslands
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Handbook of Texas Online: RUNAWAY SCRAPE OAK
qv Gen. Sam Houston qv and a force of nearly 400 men camped around this tree before moving
on toward San Jacinto the next morning.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: John A. Haislet, ed., Famous Trees
of Texas (College Station: Texas Forest Service
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Handbook of Texas Online: FRUITS OTHER THAN CITRUS
at home.
In 1960 Texas had 90,949 pear trees on 5,936 farms; four years
later the number of trees had declined to 57,351. In the 1990s
pear production continued to supply local markets and home consumption.
Peach production reached its apex in 1910, when nearly
ten million trees of
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Handbook of Texas Online: UPLAND ISLAND WILDERNESS AREA
circumference, the nation's largest snow-bell
and barberry hawthorn trees, and the largest Florida basswood
tree ever reported. A 165-foot tall cherrybark oak and a shagbark
hickory within the preserve are among the largest trees in Texas.
The main northern approach to Upland Island is via Forest Road
303
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Handbook of Texas Online: SMALL GREENS CREEK
52'
W). Much of its course is cut through rolling terrain surfaced
by deep soils of loose gravel and sand over a subsoil of gravel
mixed with heavy clay that support some pecan trees, willow trees,
and grasses. The soil is a good source of material for road fill
but
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Handbook of Texas Online: CYPRESS CREEK
he established a mill on the creek just below
the site abandoned by the Mormons. Despite this and subsequent
exploitation of the cypress trees along this stretch of the creek,
many of the trees still stood in the 1980s, when they were among
the oldest and largest trees in Blanco
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Handbook of Texas Online: CIPRES, TX
County. The area was in Rancho Tale Perez
until after 1890. In the early 1900s the land was subdivided for
farming, and in 1909 J. H. Hinojosa planted cypress trees around
a commissary and supply store. A post office, named for the trees,
operated from 1913 until 1955 in a
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Handbook of Texas Online: AWALT, TX
Awalt, among the earliest settlements in Gregg County, was probably
founded in the late 1840s. It was located two miles south of Pine
Tree Church near the site of the present western edge of Longview.
The community was named for Solomon Awalt, the first minister
of the Pine Tree
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Handbook of Texas Online: ANAQUA, TX
anaqua trees for posts, wheel spokes, axles, yokes, and tool
handles. Anaqua became a trading post at which a ferry operated
for many years. A post office, which at first was simply a box
nailed to a big anaqua tree, was established in 1852, and the
community also erected a
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Handbook of Texas Online: TRANSCONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY
Benedum,
a lease man for South Penn Oil, met Joseph Clifton Trees, an independent
driller. The two formed a partnership, headquartered in Pittsburgh,
that lasted until Trees died, on May 20, 1943. By 1918 Benedum-Trees
interests included refineries, skimming plants, and leases throughout
Louisiana, Illinois, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Texas
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Handbook of Texas Online: COTTONWOOD CREEK
one mile north
of Farm Road 193 and five miles east of Dumont (at 33°48'
N, 100°27' W). The creek received its name from stands of
cottonwood trees that grew near a series of springs in northwest
King County. The trees remain, although the springs are
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Handbook of Texas Online: SEVEN PINES, TX
SEVEN PINES, TEXAS .
Seven Pines, a farming community on State Highway 300 a mile north
of Longview and twelve miles southeast of Gilmer on the Gregg-Upshur
county line, was established around 1900 and named for seven large
pine trees at the site. The town
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Handbook of Texas Online: NOTREES, TX
NOTREES, TEXAS .
Notrees, on State Highway 302 twenty-one miles northwest of Odessa
in west central Ector County, had one native tree before construction
of a large Shell gas plant forced its removal. Grocer Charlie
Brown started his store in 1946, became the first postmaster later
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Handbook of Texas Online: CAUBLE, PETER
qv conveyed land at Peach Tree Village to Peter Cauble on April 2,
1844. By 1860, with the Aranjo land available, Cauble built the
5,000-acre Peach Tree Plantation and began operating one of the
county's first cotton gins. He was road commissioner and justice
of Tyler
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Handbook of Texas Online: TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION
forestry
shortcourses, distributing millions of pine seedlings free to
East Texas youths, sponsoring the tree farm program in Texas,
and awarding scholarships to forestry students at Texas A&M
and Stephen F. Austin State universities. It established a series
of woodland walking trails and the privately financed Texas Reforestation
Foundation
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Handbook of Texas Online: SYCAMORE, TX
SYCAMORE, TEXAS
(Wise County). Sycamore is on Farm Road 1204 eight miles northeast
of Decatur in northeast Wise County. The site was settled in the
latter part of the nineteenth century and named for the abundance
of sycamore trees that covered the area. By the mid-1890s
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Handbook of Texas Online: PINE, TX
six miles south of Pittsburg
in southern Camp County. Settlement in the area began in the late
1830s, and when the post office was established in 1848 it was
named Pine Tree for the numerous pine trees growing nearby. The
post office was closed in 1871. When the Texas and
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Handbook of Texas Online: CANE ISLAND VILLAGE
CANE ISLAND VILLAGE .
The Cane Island Village of the Alabama Indian tribe was between
Peach Tree Village qv and Fort Terán twenty-two miles northwest of the site of
present Woodville, Texas. This site was at
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Handbook of Texas Online: ENDERLE, BENJAMIN LESTER
a position he held for the next sixty-three years. In
1913 he also accepted a post at Fredericksburg High School, where
he was a math and science teacher and a coach until 1944.
In 1921 Enderle and his wife began planting peach
trees on fourteen acres east of
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Handbook of Texas Online: OLD EVERGREEN, TX
of the town but a small cemetery and the old evergreen
tree after which the community was named. A historical marker
was placed next to the tree in 1967.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lee County Historical Survey Committee,
A History of Lee County (Quanah, Texas: Nortex, 1974).
Christopher
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Handbook of Texas Online: SMITH, LEVI
Benedum and Joe Trees, who became
life-long associates. When Benedum-Trees discovered oil in Illinois
in 1905, Smith took charge of the field. He directed subsequent
operations in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas and was know as an
honest, knowledgeable, and just manager. Benedum-Trees also sent
him to Mexico
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Handbook of Texas Online: ALAMO DE CESARIO CREEK
to their camp at Agua Fria. There they tied
her to an alamo , or cottonwood, tree. Friends and relatives
of Cesaria followed the trail of her captors and rescued her,
but the tree and the area became known as Alamo de Cesaria, or
Cesaria's Cottonwood.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Virginia
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