1957
Thursday, 13th April 2006 by James Turnbull
I've done a lot of research on this remote forest near Lincoln, Nebraska and managed to identify that it was probably planted around 1957...
OK, I didn't do very well with the research; I must a bit rusty after my week off! Anyone know anything more?
Thanks: Dave Atkin
Dang, I can’t seem to find anything either. All I could find was this… http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050073/ And the park is called either “Wagon Train Lake Recreation Area” or “Wagon Train State Recreation Area.” I’m assuming it must have something to do with the TV series since it first aired in 1957 and it goes by the same name. Maybe sombody else will have better luck finding some info on this, my Googling skills must be teh suxxorz. 😐
Well I now know more about the Wagon Train Lake Recreation Area then I ever thought I would… and still no mention of these trees!
Hmm, move along, these trees do not exist?
The wider view reminds me of the door in the opening sequence of The Twilight Zone. And CBS purchased the first screenplay from Serling in … 1957!
Perhaps we’re looking at it upside down. It might be an ad for LSGI.
You know, Lincoln Surveying Group, International.
Yeah.
“The names of Charles Raymond Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate hold a place in the history books as Nebraska’s most notorious mass murderers. Their saga began when 19-year-old Starkweather killed a gas station attendant in December 1957. Then, in late January 1958, Charlie and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril began an eight-day murder spree that started with the murder of Caril’s family, and eventually led to ten total deaths before they were captured on the highway outside Douglas, Wyoming. Tried and convicted of murder, Charles Starkweather was executed at the Nebraska State Penitentiary on June 24, 1959. Also convicted, Caril Fugate’s initial life sentence was commuted to a 30 to 50 year sentence in 1973. In 1976, after serving 18 years, Fugate was paroled and she eventually resettled in Michigan”.
http://www.lcl.lib.ne.us/depts/ref/starkweathercase.htm
Sorry to double post but Caril Fugate lived, and her family was murdered in their home, in Benett, which is very near to the forest pictured.
oh.
OK last one http://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/html/Lake_Proj/missouririver/wagon.html
I think RJ Marquette was the closest. I like his idea about The Twilight Zone, it could actually be that because it looks like a door to me too.
Alternatively, it could just be one of those freak’s of nature.
It’s likely it’s actually a ‘1967’, with a tree missing. There’s a geocache at this site; on the linked log, there’s a picture of the monument there – the ‘Green Thumb Centennial Forest’, planted in 1967.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=f8c14fd4-9a83-4c32-b546-4c7d6cc091a9
yeah, I think that does say 1967 if you look closer.
it is 1957 and cacafuego is the closest out of all of you. so it sounds to me you need to do some research on caril or you need to do more research on the forest so you don’t look like a fool next time
I live about 1/2 mile from the trees. There’s nothing special here- it’s the year they were planted. Sorry for the lack of originality.
And it’s 1967.