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1.  After the tornado, 1896 (Gleditschia triacanthos)

After the tornado, 1896. (Gleditschia triacanthos) 



1896

2.  Arboretum.

Big honey locust that stood near the center of the Arboretum, just west of the creek, destroyed by the tornado of May 27, 1896. 



1896

3.  Arboretum damaged by tornado.

Arboretum damaged by tornado. 



1897

4.  May 27, 1896 tornado damage.

May 27, 1896 tornado damage. Previously there was a border of soft maples on either side of the driveway from the main garden down to the pasture gates near the creek. The boy is Robert Meyers (later a garden pupil). 



1896

5.  Acer dasycarpum on Floral Avenue.

Approach to Garden. Acer Dasycarpum lining Floral Avenue before the Great Cyclone of 1896 destroyed them. Floral Ave. was later named Flora Place after the development of the Shaw neighborhood began in 1897. 



1891

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