“…Arbor Day, launched April 22, 1875, by J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska as part of a campaign to get people to plant trees on the bare prairie. Within a dozen years, 40 states had named April 22 an official holiday, and 600 million newly planted trees adorned the nation’s plains.”
~ Prelude to the Century: 1870-1900 by the Editors of Time-Life Books p 76
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But the first Arbor Day was apparently earlier than 1875
From The History of Arbor Day, https://www.arborday.org/celebrate/history.cfm
From The History of Arbor Day, https://www.arborday.org/celebrate/history.cfm
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Planting Trees
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Arbor Day as a Holiday
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Straight Rows
The Topeka Daily Capital, 22 April, 1896.
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An Arbor Day Article from 1896
Arbor Day, Part 1. The Topeka Daily Capital of Topeka, Kansas on 22 April, 1896.
Arbor Day, Part 2. The Topeka Daily Capital of Topeka, Kansas, on 22 April, 1896.
Arbor Day, Part 3. The Topeka Daily Capital of Topeka, Kansas on 22 April, 1896.
Arbor Day, Part 4. The Topeka Daily Capital of Topeka, Kansas on 22 April, 1896.
Arbor Day, Part 5. The Topeka Daily Capital of Topeka, Kansas on 22 April, 1896.
Arbor Day, Part 6. The Topeka Daily Capital of Topeka, Kansas on 22 April, 1896.
Arbor Day, Part 7. The Topeka Daily Capital of Topeka, Kansas on 22 April, 1896.
Arbor Day, Part 8. The Topeka Daily Capital of Topeka, Kansas on 22 April, 1896.
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Arbor Day Images of Days Gone By
Planting of trees, Arbor Day, N.Y. Public School #4, 173rd St. & Fulton Ave., New York, image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004000388/
![Group of children and adults outside Rata School on Arbor Day, 1 August 1894, Ohingaiti district (Rangitikei). Taken by Edward George Child. Alexander Turnbull Library ref. ID: 1/1-011003-G. [source]](http://www.kristinholt.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/New-Zeland-Arbor-Day-large-1024x766.jpg)
Group of children and adults outside Rata School on Arbor Day, 1 August 1894, Ohingaiti district (Rangitikei). Taken by Edward George Child. Alexander Turnbull Library ref. ID: 1/1-011003-G. [source]
Photograph, Theodore Roosevelt replanting a Bahai orange tree, 1903
Record Group 54
Series: Photographs of Fruits, Nuts, and Vegetables, 1883-1941
Still Pictures Identifier: 54-F-79C-9041
Rediscovery Identifier: 22419 [source]
Image Credit: From The History of Arbor Day, https://www.arborday.org/celebrate/history.cfm
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Articles about Victorian Observation of Holidays:
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