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Historic leaves, volume 5, April, 1906 - January, 1907, Some old trees—number 3 (search)
R., was made, and two gavels, one of which is the property of the chapter, and the other of the Coenonia Club. Near the spot where the ash trees stand was an encampment of soldiers during the Revolution, who made part of the havoc cutting down trees mentioned earlier in this paper. The logs which formed their barracks were afterwards used by Mr. Adams to build his barn. Mr. Adams built a fence with a red gate, an entrance to the field, the line of which the ash trees bordered. Miss Augusta F. Woodbury, one of the early pupils of the high school, in 1854 wrote a poem inspired by these trees, which may be of interest here:— The old red gate. By the old red gate neath the white-ash tree, In twilight's pensive hour, We have sat and watched the sun go down, Gilding each bud and flower. The dearest friends of childhood there Have sat and sung with me, Have sung the songs we loved so well, Beneath that dear old tree. We sat in the shade of the drooping boughs, And listened to the