Where was Connecticut's Charter Oak located?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2023
- A little history about the Charter Oak and info about where it stood and the monument that commemorates it.
Some of the images in this video are from the collections of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History:
Charter Oak
hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:16817
Accession number: 1902.9.0
Advertisement for harness racing at Charter Oak Park, West Hartford
hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:12227
Accession number: 1997.1.187
The Charter Oak, Hartford
hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:14906
Accession Number: 1956.84.52
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I had no idea this was the history of Charter Oak Avenue. And that a huge tree once stood there. I love history, and your channel is superb. 😊
Thanks!
My parents both lived in "Charter Oak Terrace," in Hartford in the 1940's. This was government built housing that accommodated WWII defense industry workers. None of those buildings remain.
I was a direct ancestor, Richard Webb I, who was one of eight founders of Hartford, CT.
Until August 1975, I lived on Charter Oak Avenue, across from Capewell Manufacturing, not so far from Richard J. Kinsella school, Colt Park, The Polish Home, The Church of the Good Shepard etc. I can't believe it took me until now, 2024, to learn this info!😂 Thank you!❤ (Please forgive me if I didn't use the right names... I was just a kid and only knew the names my parents called these places😊)
I glad you enjoyed my video and found it informative! 😀
My husband’s middle name is Wadsworth. He’s a descendent of the charter grabber.
He may be related to the Wadsworth from Hartford who was the true founder of the game of baseball....not Doubleday !
Another great video of lost Hartford. The Charter Oak is still remembered in Connecticut. I wonder how many Charter Oak businesses are around, still.
Excellent video!👍👍👍
Thanks for doing Connecticut history! A lot happened here.
Well done Dan!
I always wondered about where the Hallowed tree actually was, and this video is a great answer. I truly appreciate all the research Dan conducts to make these wonderful videos.
I walk past it every day… thanks for the video, nice to see you get away from “Downtown” Hartford
Thanks Dan. Well done. You covered the story well.
Thanks Dan, another great video.
Great video! I found it interesting to learn that this tree was a symbol to Native Americans, who lost it and everything else, when this country was founded. It’s hard to think of the hurt in their souls watching the end of their ancient culture little by little.
All humans are interconnected, good and bad. Plus migrations have always been a thing. DNA has taught us that.
Great job as usual Dan. Please go north of downtown.
I want to!
What a shame such an ugly building was built at that site. With the historical significance of that location, it should have been preserved as a park. I grew up on Charter Oak Drive in New Canaan, CT and never had a clue about the significance of the name. Thank you for the eye opener.
I thought the tree stood at the same spot as the monument. Great video. How big was the tree?
I'm not sure exactly, but the tree must have been big enough to fit people inside of it!
What do you know of "descendants" of the Charter Oak? I seem to recall there are/were a number of acorns planted that grew into trees and were planted around the state. From the foggy reaches of my memory, I think there's one on the green in Canton. Am I remembering things incorrectly? Are there offshoots still growing?
There are many scion trees of the Charter Oak in various towns. Also in Bushnell Park. I heard that WVIT channel 30 is going to heir a 5 minute piece about Charter Oak and Constitution Oak trees on their streaming channel later this month.
www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/this-month-in-connecticut-history-october/3118990/
They replaced something with majesty with blight
It makes me so sad that so much beautiful history and architecture was “developed” into ugliness. They could have built a museum housed with artifacts and paintings and given the tree a proper honor. People would have flocked to see it- I know I still would! I also cannot believe they destroyed the stump, when so many people were still interested in even the roots!
There was a suggestion of honoring the tree way back in 1859. In May of that year the Hartford Courant printed a memorial to the state legislature that had been presented by the 4 men who'd acquired the Charter Oak property. They noted that they had removed the stump, but they had not destroyed it. They wrote: "It has been deposited, entire, in a place of safety, awaiting such future disposition as its owners shall hereafter decide to make of it." I'm not sure what happened to it next.
The men then stated that they were going to mark the site of the Charter Oak (presumably with the marble slab that is still there on the side of the apartment building), but they felt that a more substantial monument should be erected by the General Assembly. They even offered to transfer title of the site to the state, but as we know nothing was done to set up a monument at that time. It was only done almost half a century later, on a spot near the site of the tree and by a private group.
Some/many of the acorns of the Charter Oak were gathered, I think by the Univ. of Connecticut & planted in soil possibly in/by the Biology Dept. to grow into young saplings. The park, bordered by Main & Maple Street's, in the center of Ellington has/had at least one sapling descendant of the original Charter Oak, planted many, many years ago, by (I think) the Women's Club or the Ellington Grange. Many years ago I saw a placque in the park about the replica tree/s, so my memory might not be completely accurate.
@@joane.landers9151 This video is about another scion tree of the Charter Oak: www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/this-month-in-connecticut-history-october/3118990/
If you go to the Capitol the trees that's there are from the charter oak tree you forgot that part
I was thinking about mentioning the scion tree from the Charter Oak that's in Bushnell Park. I should have!
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