A Tale of Two CG Arbor Days
Mon, 03/30/2026 - 1:38pm
On Arbor Day, March 31, 1931, Washington Grade School Principal George R. Johnson dug up a twoyear-old bur oak seedling growing in a flower bed near the Council Oak, on the residential property of Miss Bernice Crimm, a teacher at Washington School. The tree was transplanted northeast of the intersection of Adams and Columbia Streets—the southwest corner of the Washington schoolgrounds block. This was during the first school year following construction of the new school building during the summer of 1930. In 1970, the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a bronze plaque at the foot of the tree.
