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Appalachia

theHandpuppet

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3. My grandfather brought some old chestnut trees from Pike County, Ky...

Reply to packman (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 22, 2014, 08:37 PM

Jun 2014

... and transplanted them some 70 years ago on some property he bought on the Ohio side of the river. Now I wonder if they might be some of the surviving old American chestnuts. But how can I tell? I wouldn't know the difference.

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