PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY -- It’s a story that might have come from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, of trees that observed momentous events of history. But instead of Ents, they are "Witness Trees."
Though they can’t speak, they tell a story. What was originally a surveyor’s mark to designate property lines, Witness Trees have morphed into observers of important historical events.
According to Bryan Gorsira, the Natural Resource Program Manager at Manassas National Battlefield Park, about eight trees have been designated as Witness Trees to the troop movements of the First and Second Battles of Manassas. While there are no plans to identify more, Gorsira estimates that there are “hundreds of other trees that old in the park that have not been designated.”
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