Lighting of HP’s ‘Landmark Pecan Tree’ Going Virtual
The lighting of Highland Park’s Landmark Tree, like so many other events this year, is going virtual in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Town Makes ‘Big Pecan’ Podium Delivery
The legacy of Highland Park’s Million Dollar Monarch continues. Highland Park ISD recently received podiums made from the tree that once stood at Armstrong Parkway at Preston Road for more than 104 years.
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Landmark Tree Lighting
Highland Park’s tradition of lighting the Landmark pecan tree for the season continued with a Dec. 1 tree lighting ceremony.
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Podium Pecan
The wood harvested from the historic “Big Pecan” could stand again as podiums in every Highland Park ISD campus.
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HP Lights Landmark Tree
Like many holiday routines, the lighting of Highland Park’s Landmark Pecan Tree looked different this year, but the new tradition continued.
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Highland Park Could Replace Big Pecan with Much Smaller Tree
Mayor Margo Goodwin looked at the empty esplanade where Highland Park’s historic monarch pecan stood and envisioned old fashion azaleas – lots of low plants to replace the missing tall one.
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Best of 2019: RIP, Big Pecan
Although Highland Park began fretting about the health of the Big Pecan at the corner of Armstrong and Preston well
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Newly-named ‘Landmark Tree’ Serves New Christmas Role
Highland Park leaders could still consider larger replacement for Big Pecan
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Did It Really Cost $27,000 To Remove the Big Pecan?
Highland Park’s 150-plus-year-old landmark monarch pecan tree on Armstrong Parkway near Preston Road was huge. By some accounts, the Big
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Highland Park’s Big Pecan Comes Down Quickly
Dale Cole Jenkins lives in Turtle Creek so it didn’t take her long to drive over to Armstrong Parkway and
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Take One Final Look at Big Pecan Tree
As a young girl, Patricia Essa Purcell Bagnall would walk with her grandmother on Lakeside Drive to fill jugs with artesian water and listen to tales of the “early days.”
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