The story goes that the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Endicott, wanted a welcoming sight for new world settlers as they arrived to the wilds of America.
In 1632 he planted what would become known as the Endicott Pear Tree. He is said to have declared at the time: "I hope the tree will love the soil of the old world and no doubt when we have gone the tree will still be alive." Few would have ever guessed the same tree would still be producing fruit nearly 400 years later.
Yet it is. The Endicott Pear Tree has been cared for since the mid 1700s as locals noted the importance of the pear tree.
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| Endicott Pear Tree ~1920 |
