Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6 § 15I

Current through Chapter 231 of the 2024
Section 6:15I - Liberty Tree Day

The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart August fourteenth as Liberty Tree day commemorating the first public shade tree planting in the new world in the year sixteen hundred and forty-six, one of the trees so planted being known from the year seventeen hundred and sixty-five until its removal by British soldiers ten years later as the Liberty Tree, a Symbol of Freedom.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, § 15I