Daniel Boone Beech

Daniel Boone Beech

Perhaps one of the best-known trees of Tennessee, this beech famously features Daniel Boone’s carving: “D. Boon cilled a bar in year 1760”. The tree stood on a knoll east of the campsite of the first white settler in Tennessee, William Bean, and was also used as...
John Shanks White Oak of Jonesborough #25

John Shanks White Oak of Jonesborough #25

Quercus alba This giant oak likely was present when Jonesborough, the oldest town in Tennessee, was formed in 1779. The first written evidence of the tree is found in an 1884 land deed for Washington County where it is mentioned as a boundary tree. The giant oak is...