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Arbor Day Question: What's Your Favorite Swampscott Tree

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This is a day on which many people in the United States celebrate the humble tree, Arbor Day.

Swampscott has an assortment of notable trees in its three square miles. Many of them grow around Town Hall, some inscribed years ago with the names of couples.

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The line of cherry trees at Fisherman's Beach will soon put on a colorful display and the big willow on Paradise Road has been showing its yellow for a while now.

Willows are some of the first trees to get their leaves and some of the last to lose their leaves, we've heard.

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Swampscott had a mass planting at Jackson Park back in 1918, said Lou Gallo, town historian. But not of willows.

Four thousand pines were planted there that year, and another 2,500 trees — Lou thinks they were maples — were reserved in a local nursery for later planting, he said.

Jackson Park was the site of a saw mill, owned by the Jackson brothers, he said.

Lou also says there was a Swampscott tree warden from the early 1960s who was an eager tree planter.

The original Arbor Day was founded in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska City, Nebraska, and on the first Arbor Day, April 10, 1872, an estimated one million trees were planted, according to Wikipedia.

School kids from Hadley are going to plant a tree on Monument Avenue today, according to DPW Director Gino Cresta.

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