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Workers felling the Discovery Tree giant sequoia in 1853.

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English: In 1853, Captain Hanford felled the "Discovery Tree," a giant sequoia in Calaveras Grove, for public exhibition. A group of five men spent 22 days boring through the tree with two inch-pump augers.
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Source Kruska, Dennis G. (1985). Sierra Nevada Big Trees: History of the Exhibitions, 1850-1903: Los Angeles, California: Dawson's Book Shop.
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
Camera location38° 16′ 39.06″ N, 120° 18′ 30″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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