Monument to the Baldwin Apple
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Pictured is a monument to the Baldwin apple. The monument was erected in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The inscription reads “This Pillar Erected in 1895 by the Rumford Historical Association, Incorporated April 28, 1877. Marks the estate where in 1793 Samuel Thompson, Esq., while locating the line of the Middlesex Canal, discovered the first Pecker apple tree. Later named the Baldwin.”
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Miscellaneous American HistorySource
L. H. Bailey Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture (New York, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917) volume 1, page 316
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