This American chestnut is growing on an upper southeast-facing slope in Edgar Evins State Park, Dekalb Co., Tennessee.  It is in a forest dominated by chestnut oak and  is surrounded by mountain laurel.  Note the depression at the base of the tree which is where a large chestnut tree once stood.  It may have died from the blight in the 1930s or early 1940s and then fell and decayed over the years.  We don't know how many other stems sprang from the root system, grew for a while, and then  died and decomposed. This is the only surviving stem today; it is healthy, but does show two small swollen cankers, which have apparently healed. This site is littered with old dead chestnut stumps and trunks in various stages of decay.