Medal of Honor Trees
Medal of Honor Tree 1
The Martin Luther King Jr. Water Oak tree is part of a grove of water oaks located next to the Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, located in Selma, Ala. Gathering under the shade of these trees, people listened to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. speak before a 50-mile march to Montgomery in support of the bus boycott, a movement begun by Rosa Parks in 1955.
Medal of Honor Tree 2
The National Champion Crape Myrtle located near the Kearny Monument. In 1920, Hattie Neal, daughter of Captain John Neal, dug a small crape myrtle tree from the yard of relatives in Paris, Ky. and planted it in the front yard of her family’s home in McIntosh, Fla. Since 1920, Hattie Neal's crape myrtle has grown to become the National Champion Crape Myrtle — the largest of its species in the nation.