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Chicago Stump

TIME : 2016/2/18 12:20:51

The 20ft-high Chicago Stump is all that’s left of the once-mighty 3200-year-old General Noble tree. The 285ft giant was cut into sections and transported to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago to demonstrate the unbelievable scale of the newly discovered giant sequoia trees. Dubious viewers soon nicknamed it the ‘California hoax’!