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Newspaper Tree

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Newspaper Tree

August 20, 2026

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El Paso’s “Newspaper Tree” was a cottonwood or ash tree remembered as a public notice board in the plaza before the Civil War. In an August 30, 1940 El Paso Times column, W.W. Bridgers described…

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