The Great Pine
This huge log was cut from a mighty white pine which grew southwest of the armory on 2nd Avenue South in Wisconsin Rapids and escaped the axe of the lumberjacks for many decades. The tree was 181 years of age. It was 78 years old and quite a tree when the Civil War ended. This huge log is 18' long and has a diameter of 41". It contains over 500 board feet of lumber. Logs such as this provided the raw material for the log drives down the Wisconsin River and for the local lumber mills in the early pioneer days of this city.
Placed to rest in the year Nineteen Hundred Sixty-Seven A.D.
Marker can be reached from 2nd Avenue South (State Highway 73) 0.4 miles south of Gaynor Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
