ATHENS-Join the City of Athens, Athens Rotary Club, Limestone County Commission and the Alabama
Forestry Commission as we celebrate Arbor Day on the Square in historic Downtown Athens, Saturday, April 24, from 10:00 – 11:00. We will dedicate a willow oak tree to replace the oak claimed by a storm in 2020. Alabama Forestry Commission has donated 300 saplings to be given away for the event. These trees will be available after the ceremony. You may pick one up for your family at Big Spring Park under the KALB tent. We will have Bald Cypress, White Fringe (Grancy’s Greybeard), common Persimmon and Red Mulberries. The committee would like to thank Grayson Bailey Landscape and Design for donating and planting the willow oak.
In 1872, J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees. This holiday called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska. Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world.
This event coincides with the KALB Earth Day in Big Spring Park.
