Blast from the past…Remember this tree?
Few of Randolph County’s residents will remember this tree, which stood on the southeast corner of the old courthouse lawn in Pocahontas. The tree surgeon at right is the late George Waldron of Memphis, with his cousin, Vester Philpot, who were summoned to two Pocahontas to “doctor” ailing trees on the courthouse lawn in the early 1920’s. No shrubbery had been planted around the building at that time. Although steps were taken from time to time to preserve the several trees on the one of the courthouse, all of them eventually disappeared. County Judge at the time the above photo was made by Dee Mock, G.W. Million or Rector Pickett, all of them served during the 1920’s. This photo was furnished by Lester Waldron of Route 1, Pocahontas, son of George Waldron.
