The Fallen Witness Tree

• Other Authors: Washington State University Vancouver Library; http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Sprouse & Son, Tacoma, Wash., Publishers
• Subjects: Trees; Horticulture; Arbors (Bowers); Landmarks; Bicycles; Bowers; Esther; Hudson; Hudson Bay
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cchm_photo/id/11437

Historic Old Witness Tree at Foot of Main Street, Vancouver, Washington. Vancouver's Witness Tree is believed to have been used by Lewis and Clark to tie up their boat in 1805. In 1846, first settlers Amos and Esther Short established the cottonwood at the foot of Main Street as Vancouver'...