
Celebrating Arbor Day with a Bit of History
We’ve probably all been celebrating Arbor Day since we were in elementary school. By ‘celebrating’ I mean planting trees! What you probably didn’t know though is that Arbor Day has a long history, almost 150 years worth!
Arbor Day first originated in Nebraska in the 1870s. A man named J. Sterling Morton proposed the very first Arbor day as a ‘tree planting holiday’ at a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture. It was first established to be celebrated on April 10th but soon was changed to April 22nd in...