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The Hoadley Oak [17] is a Charter Oak scion in Hartford's Bushnell Park, estimated to be over 120 years of age. It was cut down by the city in February 2023 after "considerable rotting," perhaps due to an extended drought. [18] A local artist plans to convert the remaining stump to an "interactive art piece". [18] [19]
One of the largest American elm trees recorded at 65-foot-tall (20 m) with a trunk circumference of 24 feet (7.3 m) and a crown spread of 180 feet (55 m). Weakened by Dutch elm disease , the tree died from storm damage in 1964.
This is a list of trees that grow in Connecticut. Oaks. Quercus alba - Eastern White Oak; ... This page was last edited on 7 November 2024, at 19:15 (UTC).
It is at 186 West Norwalk Road and was built in 1868. It is used nowadays for community activities such as civic group meetings. There is a Northern Arborvitae along West Norwalk Road that has attained a 138-point score on the State of Connecticut Notable Trees Project scale. [7]
The largest surviving urban forest of American elms in North America is believed to be in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where close to 200,000 elms remain. The city of Winnipeg spends $3 million annually to aggressively combat the disease utilizing Dursban Turf [ 53 ] and the Dutch Trig vaccine, [ 54 ] losing 1,500–4,000 trees per year.
Both trees are aged over 400 years and exceed 20 feet (6.1 m) in girth. They have been regularly pollarded for many years and both trunks are hollow. In 2019, Brighton and Hove City Council announced that one of the trees was to be felled due to an infestation of Dutch Elm Disease. [92]
Connecticut co-champion white oak tree, located at the former UConn campus in West Hartford [23] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 22.3 square miles (57.7 km 2 ), of which 21.9 square miles (56.6 km 2 ) is land and 0.42 square miles (1.1 km 2 ), or 1.91%, is water.
The latest project includes the 540,000-square-foot (50,000 m 2) Connecticut Convention Center, which opened in June 2005 and is the largest meeting space between New York City and Boston. Attached to the Convention Center is the 22-story, 409-room Marriott Hartford Hotel-Downtown, which opened in August 2005.