According to legend, what type of tree did George Washington chop down?
Mostly True Stories?: Urban Legends Revealed The legend is then tested by folklorist expertise, historical and logical evidence, people who work in a field the legend is based around, and, occasionally, by the show's reality checker, Bob Harris. When the legend's credibility is determined, the narrator gives us a glimpse at the next legend and we are given a hint as to what it could be about (In this legend ..., but in our "next" legend, ...). Before the commercial break, a true or false question is given to the viewers, such as "In his youth, did George Washington cut down a cherry tree and then
Washington Elm Washington Elm The Washington Elm was a tree on Cambridge Common in Cambridge, Massachusetts that lived approximately 210 years and died in 1923. Beginning as early as the 1830s, it became popular legend that "under this tree Washington first took command of the American Army" (supposedly the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The publication of the fictional "eye-witness" journal "The Diary of Dorothy Dudley" in 1876 furthered the legend. Although George Washington did take command of the army on 3 July 1775, there is no official documentation stating that this event took place under the tree. In 1923, the tree