COPPER BEECH TREE

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THE COPPER BEECH TREE IS NOW 87 YEARS OLD. IT WAS PLANTED IN DRUMMOND HILL CEMETERY IN 1914 TO COMMEMORATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE (JULY 25, 1814) WHICH WAS DESCRIBED AS BEING THE MOST FIERCELY FOUGHT AND THE BLOODIEST BATTLE OF THE WAR OF 1812. THE ACTION CENTERED ON THE HEIGHTS OF LUNDY'S LANE, NOW KNOWN AS DRUMMOND HILL.

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