The Historic Witness Tree

• Other Authors: Washington State University Vancouver Library; http://library.vancouver.wsu.edu/
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Trees; Horticulture; Arbos (bowers); Rivers; Landmarks; Bowers; Esther; Hudson; Hudson Bay
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cchm_photo/id/11439

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's Witness Tree when they recorded their land claim in which the descripti...