White Pine on Cloverlea (Tree that Started the Revolution)

The tree that started the American Revolution. The white pine was valued for masts and spars or ships in the colonial days.  Representatives of the king would mark the best specimens with three slashes of an axe,  If soldiers found the marked trees in sawmills, the owners were arrested.  This created more animosity than the tea tax.

The needles are in bundles of five,as in five letters in "white".  One row of branches is added each year.Cones are long 5-8 inch, narrow cylinders.  The tree was on early colonial flags.

The moral of the story is that events are over-determined, but the white pine was an actor,