History and sample of the Blackheart Cherry Wood [manuscript], 1933 February 14.

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History and sample of the Blackheart Cherry Wood [manuscript], 1933 February 14.

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History of the Blackheart Cherry Wood, a cherry tree brought overland to Oregon in 1847 by Henderson Luelling, and planted eventually near Olympia, Washington. History is printed on a slip of paper, signed by George Himes, and pasted to a sample of the tree's wood.

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Luelling, Henderson, 1809-1878

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Himes, George H., 1844-1940

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George H. Himes was the curator of the Oregon Historical Society. From the description of History of immigration to Oregon, undated. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 64446580 Historian, curator, and printer George Henry Himes was born on May 18, 1844 in Troy, Pennsylvania, and he came overland to the Oregon Territory with his family in 1853. They settled near Olympia, Washington, where Himes's father Tyrus took up farming. George...