American Chestnut

[rickboudrie]

A tree which used to dominate the Appalachians from Maine to Georgia, but was essentially totally whiped out by the blight.

http://chestnut.acf.org/Chestnut_history.htm

(Hey, I couldn't come up with anything else for the "A" catagory ;-) )

[Peaks]

A truely magnificant tree. Many of the old buidlings like barns and woodshole were built with them.

See the tree at the Morton Homestead in Nebraska City.