Ohio’s must see tourist attractions

[Ohiosam]

Circa 1938. I’m guessing Marietta’s big elm tree is long gone.

 

[JARHEAD]

Circa 1938. I’m guessing Marietta’s big elm tree is long gone.
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It was removed in the 1950s I believe. Some disease got it

 

[bowhunter1023]

It was removed in the 1950s I believe. Some disease got it

Yep. Dutch elm disease.

All good things eventually come to an end, and the aging and sickly tree was no match for Dutch Elm Disease when swept across the country in the 1950s, devasting the native hardwoods. The disease was first reported in the U.S. in 1928 when it arrived in a shipment of wood for Ohio’s furniture industry.

Giant once towered over Rathbone neighborhood

If you stand at Lookout Point on Harmar Hill and gaze across Marietta in the summer, the town, except for the business district, looks like a forest sweeping upward from the Muskingum River. Except for the steeples of churches, the town has a roof of leaves above the roofs of shingles and slate...

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