Transcription contributed by Leah L. Furnas 30 April 2005

The History of Warren County Ohio
Part IV Township Histories
Washington Township by Samuel Harris
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

Page
687

The forest trees were of immense growth in some parts, and consisted chiefly of red, white, black, burr and pin oak; blue, white and black or swamp ash; yellow and white poplar, black walnut and white walnut or butternut; wild cherry, black, white and shellbark hickory and honey locust. These were the most valuable species for building purposes. Sufficient sugar-trees existed to supply the settlers with sugar and sirup. There were also beech trees of large growth, maple, sweet and yellow gum, gigantic sycamores, linden, mulberry, hackberry, sassafras, white or slippery elm and red or upland elm. The largest of the oak, ash and hickory trees grew on and around Spring Hill. Of the smaller trees or undergrowth, there were the dogwood, boxwood, red and sugar haw, water beech, willow, red bud, crab-apple, wild plum, papaw, spice, prickly ash and hazel. These grew in great profusion and formed a perfect network or foliage through which it was very difficult, if not impossible, to travel. The buckeye (Ohioensis) was plenty along the streams.