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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: October 22, 2013
Caption: Magruder's Signal Tree
Additional Description: Illustrated by David Hunter Strother 'Port Crayon' Harper's New Monthly Magazine October 1886

The Darnestown signal station was on Samuel T. Magruder's farm on the Seneca Road, which General Banks used for his headquarters. An especially large Chestnut tree, 18 feet in circumference and denuded of most branches, was fitted with platforms for the signalers. Close-up of image on marker
Cornell University Library
Submitted: October 31, 2013, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p259275
File Size: 2.339 Megabytes

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