The Endicott Pear Tree is located at 100 Endicott St. in Danvers, next to Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center. Massachusetts' oldest tree is accompanied by a nearby historical marker, ...

The Endicott Pear Tree is located at 100 Endicott St. in Danvers, next to Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center. Massachusetts' oldest tree is accompanied by a nearby historical marker, ...

The Endicott Pear Tree in mid-April, covered in tiny buds that will eventually flower into pears. The first colonial governor of Massachusetts planted a pear tree in the 1600s.

By 1763, colonists noted that the tree, dubbed the Endicott pear tree, was already "very old" and showing signs of decay. But yet it persisted and continued to bear fruit.

383 years ago, John Endicott planted a pear sapling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The tree had been tenderly nursed across the Atlantic along with a number of compatriots intended for planting ...

The famous Endicott Pear Tree in Danvers, believed to be the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America, was likely brought to Salem from England on the Arbella in 1630.

Then governor John Endicott planted a pear sapling in Massachusetts which he brought over from England. In 1809 President John Adams had some of the pears from the “Endicott Tree” delivered to ...

The Endicott Pear Tree in mid-April, covered in tiny buds that will eventually flower into pears. The first colonial governor of Massachusetts planted a pear tree in the 1600s.