Of all the lovely elms that once graced the streets of Dexter (before the Dutch Elm disease), this one at the foot of Zion's Hill held the warmest spot in everyone's heart. In fact, when Tommy Bickell's nearby store caught fire around 1874, the firemen turned the hose on the tree and let the store burn. The tree was set out in 1837 by a group of businessmen including Lysander Cutler, Nat Dustin, and Hiram Bassett, and was still standing in the 1940s.

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