Selma-Dallas County leaders came together on Monday to celebrate the planting of a new Liberty Tree at Vaughan-Smitherman Museum.

Dallas County is one of 38 counties in Alabama to receive a Liberty Tree as part of a statewide initiative commemorating America’s 250th anniversary of signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Princeton Elm tree planted in the front of the museum on Union Street is only about 8 feet tall today, but officials say it will grow over the next 20 to 30 years to be 70 feet tall.

Todd and Cindy talk about the tree in this segment of the Black Belt Newscast.

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