The Endecott Pear Tree, growing on this site, is the oldest cultivated tree in America. It was planted about 1632 by John Endecott, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A living link to the nation’s earliest European settlers, it stands on part of the 300 acres Endecott was granted, where he settled and farmed and called the property Orchard Farm. This ancient tree endures as a symbol of heritage, strength, and resilience.
