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I ran this old photo and counted the pixles. if those cabins are 8 to 10 ft tall, and the tree ferns about 20 - 40 feet... Those huge skeletal, "wraithlike" Ash trees have got to be from 250 - 350 feet. Apparently the above website says these ones were up to 360 feet tall, and one was measured at 375' by George Cornthwaite in 1881 with Theodilite and again after it was felled-- the agreement was within 5 feet of standing and prostrate measure.


I don't know why, but I find those trees in the 1890 photo disturbing-- actually scary to look at.


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