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Backroads: 'Witness trees' abound in county | Region


If only we could eavesdrop.
Dotted throughout the county are still-standing trees, some hundreds of years old, proudly serving as silent bystanders to the important events taking place under their branches — what foresters call “witness trees.”
Trees, especially substantial hardwoods, were scarce on the blackland prairie; so, a sturdy oak along a creek line was a rare and pleasant discovery and too precious to chop down for homebuilding.
Which is why Bell County’s “midwife and godfather” is a tree. In April 1850, Judge Isaac Standefer (1801-1855), Milam County’s chief justice and county commissioner, following legislative action the previous January, ordered an election to organize Bell County to be carved out of a chuck of Milam County. ....

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