From the Sept. 24, 2015, BU Today by Amy Laskowski.
Tree trunks arrived at Charleston Navy Yard near Boston on July 7. They were white oak and 45 feet long, each weighing about 10,000 pounds.
They had been trucked over 1000 miles from a naval base in Crane, Indiana, which maintains a woodland with 150 mature white oak trees set aside for the restoration of the USS Constitution.
Over the next two years, 35 logs will be sawed into planks to replace the ship's hull.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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