Arrival of 1961 National Xmas Tree

Arrival of 1961 National Xmas Tree

School children welcoming Christmas tree. B&O Choraleers and WTVP weather girl. [Arrival of the 1961 National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C., on railroad car from Washington. B&O Georgetown Branch freight yard. Tree is a 75-foot Douglas fir donated by Weyerhaeuser Company’s Clemons Tree Farm. Shipment from Washington State to Washington DC sponsored by the Aberdeen Lions Club. Sign on rail car reads in part: “Grown in Grays Harbor County by Weyerhaeuser Company Clemons Tree Farm, America’s First Tree Farm.”] W-997-1-16 Photo courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, NC http://prestohost26.inmagic.com/Presto/pl/YzRmOGVlNDAtMmY0YS00YjI2LTk2ZjYtZjgzMmJlNDk1OWY2LjM3NjQw

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