Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1912 — The Columbus Tree. [ARTICLE]

The Columbus Tree.

In the outskirts of the old city of San Domingo, of the Dominican republic, among the shacks, dilapidated dwellings and mass of debris that litters this section of the town bordering the bay, stands a giant oak. The tree Is much larger than all the trees around it; in truth, it is much larger than the average trees of the island, and, for this reason, is pecu! ir. But the tree is interesting, not :.'one for its bigness and its apparent rge, but because of the story attache 1 to it. The big oak is called the “Columbus Tree,” and the story is that Columbus tied or made fast his ships by long hawsers to this tree when ie came into the harbor on that me morable twelfth day of October, 1492.