NORWALK LIBERTY TREE MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Street Tree Memorial Plaques
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Photograph By: BILL COUGHLIN
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
THIS AMERICAN LIBERTY ELM WAS NAMED AFTER “THE LIBERTY TREE: OUR COUNTRY’S FIRST SYMBOL OF FREEDOM.”
ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 14, 1765, THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON AWAKENED TO DISCOVER TWO EFFIGIES SUSPENDED FROM AN ELM TREE IN PROTECT OF THE HATED STAMP ACT. FROM THAT DAY FORWARD THAT ELM BECAME KNOWN AS “THE LIBERTY TREE.”
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