Mount Vernon Grove includes trees planted in Sanford, Florida, each linked to a historic person, place, or event through seeds, descendants, or namesakes from notable sites across the United States and beyond. The grove includes a red maple grown from seeds collected at Mount Vernon, George Washington's home; an Osage orange associated with Patrick Henry's Red Hill; a river birch descended from trees in John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia; a hackberry from the Enchanted Garden at the Edgar Allen Poe Museum in Richmond; a hackberry connected to John James Audubon's Mill Grove home in Pennsylvania; and a sycamore associated with Ellis Island, which received 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954. Other trees are tied to Charles Lindbergh's boyhood home in Minnesota, Sergeant Alvin York's home in Tennessee, Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home in Kentucky, the sycamore under which Hippocrates taught on Cos, the Maquon bur oak linked to the remaining Algonquin village after the Black Hawk War around 1830, Zachary Taylor's burial site in Louisville, Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War headquarters at City Point during the siege of Petersburg, Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776, the hilltop near where Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, Susan B. Anthony's home in Rochester, Joel Chandler Harris, Lyndon B. Johnson's birthplace, Dwight D. Eisenhower's birthplace, Jimmy Carter's birthplace in Plains, Montpelier, Woodrow Wilson's birthplace, a tulip poplar planted by Washington in 1785 at Mount Vernon, Alex Haley's boyhood home, Robert E. Lee's Stratford Hall, the ancient Angel Oak on John's Island, and the Alamo Pecan planted after the 1836 siege to honor those who fell.