Baldwin Apple Monument
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Shorelander
N 42° 31.973 W 071° 10.558
19T E 321299 N 4711238
A big granite apple with a monument underneath it.
Waymark Code: WM1ENE
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 04/21/2007
Views: 96
The Baldwin apple, now relatively unknown in commercial agriculture, was once a very popular cultivar. It was on this site in Wilmington, Massachusetts, that the first example of it was discovered. The monument at this site (with a stone apple atop it) reads:
"This monument marks the site of the first Baldwin apple tree found growing wild near here. It fell in the gale of 1815. The apple first known as the Butters, Woodpecker, or Pecker apple was named after Col. Loammi Baldwin of Woburn.
"Erected in 1895 by the Rumford Historical Association."
Agency Responsible for Placement: Other (Place below)
Agency Responsible for Placement (if not in list above): Rumford Historical Association
Year Placed: 1895
County: Middlesex
City/Town Name: Wilmington
Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]
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