Thousand Mile Tree
The Thousand Mile Tree (German thousand miles tree) is a pine on the transcontinental railroad line Omaha-Ogden (- Sacramento ) of the Union Pacific Railroad .
location
The tree is located in Weber Canyon, approximately six kilometers north of Henefer, Utah , near the border between Summit County and Morgan Counties and the Devil's Slide rock formation at an altitude of 1,602 meters above sea level. The tree stands on the strip of land between the Union Pacific Railroad and the Weber River .
history
In mid-January 1869, the first railway construction teams for the construction of the transcontinental railway line from Omaha reached Weber Canyon. Immediately at the point where the 1000th kilometer was laid was a 27 meter high pine tree . Therefore, a sign was placed on the tree during the construction of the route, which pointed out this fact.
After the completion of the railway line, summer excursion trains ran from Ogden to Weber Canyon, Devil's Slide and the Thousand Mile Tree. He was mentioned frequently in travelogues from the 1870s onwards. It was also often rumored that the tree was the only pine between Omaha and Salt Lake.
The photographers Andrew Joseph Russell and Eadweard Muybridge took photos of the tree and made it known.
By 1900 the tree had died and was removed in September 1900.
In 1982 the Union Pacific Railroad planted a new tree on the site. Due to route changes made in the meantime, the tree is now 959.66 miles from Omaha. The tree is protected by a wire fence.
Web links
- Don Strack: Union Pacific in Weber and Echo Canyons. Retrieved May 13, 2019 (American English).
literature
- Daegan Miller: This Radical Land. A Natural History of American Dissent . University of Chicago Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-226-33614-5 .
- 19 Mar 1904, Page 21 - Deseret Evening News at Newspapers.com. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 12 Jun 1869, 2 - The Washington Standard at Newspapers.com. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 3 ′ 11 " N , 111 ° 31 ′ 45.3" W.