http://www.washington.edu/home/historical/george.html

 

On the back of this photograph someone has written that this is a "true cutting of the old original 'George Washington elm' in Cambridge Massachusetts planted by Professor Edmond S. Meany in front of Lewis Hall in 1902." The original elm is the one under which George Washington took command of the American Army on July 3, 1775 . (McCaffrey, p. 37,38) The picture was taken May, 1947, when the height of the tree was almost 75' tall.

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There's also a movie about this Washington Elm:


 http://pokey.css.washington.edu/css/emc/titles.php?abstracts=1&mid=3090
•    WASHINGTON ELM, THE
o    1957 ----- color ----- 30 min ----- $18.00 ----- 16mm
o    (Historical Collection) (From Death Valley Days) The story of how a cutting from the "Washington Elm" in Massachusetts, the historic tree under whose branches George Washington took command of the Continental Army, was transplanted and grown on the University of Washington campus. In 1923, when a storm blew down and killed the original elm, the University of Washington gave to the city of Cambridge a grandscion of the original "Washington Elm" to plant on the Commons. (Includes advertisements)