~ by Paul Sackmann
Big Trees
I
have a book by Albert J. Beverage on the subject of Abraham Lincoln during the years 1809 to 1858, published in 1928. Page 38 starts Chapter Two,“ Indiana: Boyhood and Youth.” It describes the forest north of the Ohio River onward to Indianapolis and further points north.
The second paragraph mentions a gentleman named Adlard Welby who claimed that in 1819 he measured an oak tree and found it to be 24 feet in circumference. Other measurements in this chapter found trees up to 47 feet in circumference. The forest is also described with many species of trees, all of them giants. Indiana at this time was virgin forest.
The forests of today, here in Brown County, are only 125 years old. The county was almost clearcut of its forests by 1900.
This walnut cabinet was recently discovered in an old tool shed. The boards are from early timber harvested from the Brown County area pre-1850. One of the boards in this cabinet is 30 inches across. The cabinet was so heavy with tools
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