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A 31-foot-tall dogwood tree, discovered in Sampson County by A. J. Bullard of Mount Olive, has been declared the nation's tallest by the National Register of Big Trees. The dogwood has a circumference of 144 inches and crown spread of 48 feet.
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A thirty-one-foot dogwood tree, discovered in 1995 in Sampson County by A.J. Bullard of Mount Olive, has been declared the nation's tallest by the National Register of Big Trees. The dogwood has a crown spread of forty-eight feet. The tree stands in Sampson County's Matthis Cemetery, which dates back to the Civil War.
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Three miles north of Turkey in Sampson County stands what is possibly the largest and most historic pecan tree in North Carolina. Measuring 17 feet 2 inches in circumference, the tree was a gift from President James Madison to Thomas Kenan, a member of Congress from that district. The tree was planted between 1805 and 1811.