WEST LAFAYETTE LIBERTY TREE MEMORIAL PLAQUE

THIS “LIBERTY TREE” HAS BEEN PLANTED IN HONOR OF THOSE PATRIOTS LAID TO REST IN TIPPECANOE COUNTY AND THE STATE OF INDIANA WHOSE SERVICE AND SACRIFICES HELPED FORM THIS NATION DURING ITS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
THE 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 PROTEST OF THE HATED STAMP ACT. FROM THAT DAY FORWARD THAT ELM BECAME KNOW AS “THE LIBERTY TREE.”