The Wagon Yard Elm
by Robert J Sadler
Title
The Wagon Yard Elm
Artist
Robert J Sadler
Medium
Mixed Media - Photography/digital Art
Description
On twelve acres in North Texas a remnant of virgin Blackland Prairie exists on what was the pioneer town of Frankford which is now an island of land in northern Dallas. The land is part of The Historic Frankford Church and Cemetery preservation. This image, just south of the old church building itself shows a virgin open field surmounted by an ancient Aermotor Windmill which stands just feet away from spring-fed creek used by the Shawnee Indians and later by cattle drovers who called it the Shawnee Trail. On the creek's west bank of what became known as Hall's Branch of White Rock Creek (which feeds the Trinity River) is ancient American Elm tree whose truck sprouts into five huge main branches. This tree has provided a century and more of shade for today's visitors as well as Indians, pioneers and cattlemen and the ground beyond an encampment for the people and the horse-drawn equipment of the time. The area, appropriately, was called 'the wagon yard'. Thus the towering American Elm tree became known as "The Wagon Yard Elm" and was certified as an historic tree by The Texas Historic Tree Coalition on November 19, 2011.
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September 5th, 2017
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