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  Abundance of American chestnut in Tennessee
     according to W. W. Ashe (Chestnut in Tennessee, 1911)
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New records for the
American chestnut in Tennessee
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The largest (38 in dbh,
45 ft tall) and oldest
surviving American
chestnut on the
Highland Rim

  • This tree in Adair Co., Ky. has weathered the blight, a lightning strike, and a bulldozer scrape  (scar at the base).
  • it is one of the very few chestnut trees that actually survived the initial chestnut annihilation in this part of the country during the 1930s and 1940s.
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