Historical Name: Minuteman
Common Name: Silver Maple
Latin Name: Acer saccharinum
The Minuteman Silver Maple spreads its branches over a historic Massachusetts battlefield. On April 19, 1775 on a country road outside Boston the citizen-soldiers of the American colonies first met in battle with the British. At North Bridge, which fords the Concord River, the colonial militia, sworn to be 鈥渞eady in a minute,鈥� fired the 鈥渟hot heard around the world,鈥� beginning the Revolutionary War. This tree was grown from a seed taken from the Minuteman Silver Maple, and was planted into UCNJ鈥檚 Historic Tree Grove in 1997.
(text adapted from American Forests)