Pike County  Georgia News- Allen Mulberry Tree 1896
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The Pike County Journal.
Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, Feb. 21, 1896

In the year 1834 Capt. A.S. Allen, then a boy on his fathers farm near
Zebulon, stuck a mulberry sprout into the ground. At the time, the
sprout was not larger than a lead pencil and had been used by the boy as
an ox goad. Today it is a tree almost nineteen feet in circumference at
a distance of two feet from the ground and is said to be the largest
mulberry tree in Georgia.

(Transcribed 11/17/02 Lynn Cunningham)