The historic purple beech tree on Chelmsford Common, planted by schoolchildren in 1891, is “honorably dismantled” by Parsons Tree Service Thursday morning. Ted Parsons (in white hard hat), the ...

Gail, who took it upon herself to ensure the tree was listed on the state's Registry of Historic Trees in 2005, died in September. Like any such memorial, several speakers offered a few words, ...

What: Fagus sylvatica ‘Rohanii’, commonly called the cutleaf purple beech, is one of the most majestic trees to add to the larger landscape. The structural beauty of the smooth, gray barked trunk and ...

The state Department of Conversation and Recreation Department Urban Community and Forestry Division has inducted the purple beech tree planted on the lawn of the Elihu Thomson Administration Building ...

A 121-year-old purple beech tree in Chelmsford’s town common is slated to be removed Thursday after arborists decided its cracks and decay made it too dangerous to be left standing. On Arbor Day in ...

CHELMSFORD — The huge purple beech tree that once towered over the town common is gone, though pieces of it are finding useful second lives, including a bench on the common that was carved from the ...

LOUISVILLE (WHAS11) -- A former Louisville Deputy Mayor in Seneca Park was honored on Tuesday, Dec. 8, at Seneca Park. A Cutleaf Purple Beech tree was planted in honor of Joan Riehm's work to beautify ...

Editor’s Note: The following was submitted by the Sherborn Library Board of Trustees. A familiar sight to all who pass through Sherborn, the majestic European beech tree stands on Sherborn’s green, ...