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Curse of the Witness Tree**pulled for maintenance* LbNA #13983 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Kantexan
Plant date:Mar 25, 2005
Location:
City:Arlington
County:Tarrant
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Found by: jayceeinbedford
Last found:Aug 24, 2006
Status:FFFaFFFFF
Last edited:Mar 25, 2005
This microbox has been temporarily pulled so I can replace the logbook on 11/20/2006

This microbox has been rehidden as of 7/19/2005.

There is a small pocket park on Bardin Road just west of Cooper Street.

This microbox is located in Witness Tree Park on Bardin Road. Stand at the gate of this park and look NE to the location of the back of the World Market Store and imagine a huge old tree standing as a silent sentry to the Natives of the North Texas Prairie. Then the farmers of old patiently plowing their fields. Now see the suburban sprawl that is Southwest Arlington.

Oldtimers call it the Curse of the Witness Tree. A 280 year old magnificent post oak was once used as a landmark and meeting place for crop swaps. Then suburban expansion came into play as the owners of a Pace Discount Warehouse decided to uproot the tree and move it to make way for progress. They posted a $50,000 bond, as required by the Bardin family-the original owners of the land, as a guarantee that the tree would live at least 7 years past its transplant. In 1992 the tree was uprooted and planted in this park. Well, Pace lost $50,000. The tree died in 1993. It has not been burned. The blackness of the stump is due to a linseed oil treatment applied in hopes of preserving what little is left.

Why is it a curse? Well, Pace went out of business, then two restaurants in that location,then Phar-Mor, then Discovery Zone, then K-mart. Will the Curse put the World Imports store out as it has so many others? Read the inscription in the park and wonder at the phrase,"successfully transplanted"!

To find the box, gaze into the largest end of the tree. Then from there, proceed at a bearing of 335 degrees. Look at the base of the second square black fencepost for the microbox. Please replace exactly as you found it. Thanks! Have Fun!