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This tree was cut in 1875, and a 16 ft. section was sent to the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Only the outer shell was exhibited, with the parts reassembled after shipment. Eastern people refused to accept the exhibit as part of a single tree and called it the “California Hoax.” It took 2 men 9 days to chop down the tree. Its upper trunk is the scarred log down slope from the Grant Tree. Ladies from a nearby logging camp used to conduct Sunday school services for their children upon the stump.
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