Article: Michigan-Ohio Friendship Continues to Grow: Buckeye Tree Planted On Grounds of Travel Michigan's Monroe Welcome Center.

LANSING, Mich., May 22 /PRNewswire/ --

At a ceremony today at the Monroe Welcome Center, Monroe, Michigan, a Buckeye tree was planted and a plaque rededicated symbolizing the long-standing friendship between the states of Michigan and Ohio. The eight-foot-tall Buckeye Tree was donated courtesy of the Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association.

The story of the friendship Buckeye Tree started on a chilly February day nearly 60 years ago -- February 12, 1941 -- when the tree was planted and dedicated with a plaque at Michigan's Monroe Welcome Center, then located on U.S. 24 (Telegraph Road). After I-75 was built, the Monroe Welcome Center moved to its ...

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