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"Officially termed the Condra Tree Segment, the stump is a piece of the base portion of a hemlock tree inscribed with what museum registrar Heather Kliever likes to call "pioneer graffiti." In 1867, while the tree was standing, it was inscribed by Silas Condra, an early settler in the southern Willamette Valley who had come over the Oregon Trail with his family 14 years earlier, when he was just 8 years old.
On the trunk of the tree, Condra inscribed the date, June 12, 1867, and his name and birthdate of July 11, 1845. He also wrote that he was born in Knox County, Ill., and crossed the Plains in 1853.
He misspelled Knox as "Nox."
But why he made the carving and what he was doing in the remote woods far from home remain mysteries. The Condra family settled near Halsey in Linn County, and the tree was found on a ridge northeast of Vida — 93 years after Condra's fateful visit.
"Why he did it, we don't know," Kliever said."
"Officially termed the Condra Tree Segment, the stump is a piece of the base portion of a hemlock tree inscribed with what museum registrar Heather Kliever likes to call "pioneer graffiti." In 1867, while the tree was standing, it was inscribed by Silas Condra, an early settler in the southern Willamette Valley who had come over the Oregon Trail with his family 14 years earlier, when he was just 8 years old.
On the trunk of the tree, Condra inscribed the date, June 12, 1867, and his name and birthdate of July 11, 1845. He also wrote that he was born in Knox County, Ill., and crossed the Plains in 1853.
He misspelled Knox as "Nox."
But why he made the carving and what he was doing in the remote woods far from home remain mysteries. The Condra family settled near Halsey in Linn County, and the tree was found on a ridge northeast of Vida — 93 years after Condra's fateful visit.
"Why he did it, we don't know," Kliever said."
http://www.registerguard.com/web/newslocalnews/27323979-41/condra-tree-museum-county-stump.html.csp
"Officially termed the Condra Tree Segment, the stump is a piece of the base portion of a hemlock tree inscribed with what museum registrar Heather Kliever likes to call "pioneer graffiti." In 1867, while the tree was standing, it was inscribed by Silas Condra, an early settler in the southern Willamette Valley who had come over the Oregon Trail with his family 14 years earlier, when he was just 8 years old.
On the trunk of the tree, Condra inscribed the date, June 12, 1867, and his name and birthdate of July 11, 1845. He also wrote that he was born in Knox County, Ill., and crossed the Plains in 1853.
He misspelled Knox as "Nox."
But why he made the carving and what he was doing in the remote woods far from home remain mysteries. The Condra family settled near Halsey in Linn County, and the tree was found on a ridge northeast of Vida — 93 years after Condra's fateful visit.
"Why he did it, we don't know," Kliever said."
"Officially termed the Condra Tree Segment, the stump is a piece of the base portion of a hemlock tree inscribed with what museum registrar Heather Kliever likes to call "pioneer graffiti." In 1867, while the tree was standing, it was inscribed by Silas Condra, an early settler in the southern Willamette Valley who had come over the Oregon Trail with his family 14 years earlier, when he was just 8 years old.
On the trunk of the tree, Condra inscribed the date, June 12, 1867, and his name and birthdate of July 11, 1845. He also wrote that he was born in Knox County, Ill., and crossed the Plains in 1853.
He misspelled Knox as "Nox."
But why he made the carving and what he was doing in the remote woods far from home remain mysteries. The Condra family settled near Halsey in Linn County, and the tree was found on a ridge northeast of Vida — 93 years after Condra's fateful visit.
"Why he did it, we don't know," Kliever said."
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