Clara Barton Memorial Forest

State of New York Conservation Commission Fifteenth Annual Report, p. 170

The ten-acre[Barton] Memorial Forest is located on New York Route 186.

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Lake Placid News, 2 January 1931

FOREST AROUND CHUBB HILL TO BE NAMED FOR PETTIS

Plantation on Saranac Road Will Be Marked as a Memorial for the Late Clifford R Pettis, Former Superintendent of State Forests -- Other Memorial Forests Designated

…From other memorial forests planted in honor of distinguished Americans during the term of Conservation Commissioner Alexander Macdonald have just been officially designated by action of the Conservation Department. They are the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Forest, the Clara Barton Memorial Forest, the Clara Barton Memorial Forest, the Gene Stratton Porter Memorial Forest  and the forest in memory of Stephen T. Mather, who was known as the father of the system of national parks. All of these forests are planted in the Forest Preserve where, by reason of the constitution prohibiting1 the cutting of trees, they will stand forever as living monuments to the people for whom they were planted.

The Clara Barton Memorial Forest was planted in the spring of 1925 when the movement was started by the National First Aid Association of America to plant memorial trees in honor of Clara Barton, the founder and first president of the American Red Cross society. When the state of New York was requested to participate in this planting of memorial trees Commissioner Macdonald selected a ten-acre plot in the Peter Carley tract, Township 21, Macombs purchase, Great Tract 1, in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin county, and planted 10,000 Scotch pine trees. This forest lies along the main highway near the Lake Clear nursery, and is passed by many thousand tourists every summer...

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STATE OF NEW YORK
Conservation Commission
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
For the Year 1925
ALBANY
J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS
p. 172.
Clara Barton Forest.— Steps were taken last year to plant trees as a memorial to Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross. The Conservation Commission is not working along the line of planting single trees, but in order to cooperate in the movement to plant trees in memory of this noble woman, a plantation of about 10 acres was made in the Forest Preserve along the main state highway, about nine miles from Saranac Lake. This is known as the Clara Barton Memorial Forest.