The Discovery Tree

In 1853, about a year after Dowd first came across the discovery tree, two businessmen brothers named the Lapon brothers made a land claim on the Grove. They brought in a friend who was the head of a local water company and they set out to dismantle the tree and turn it into a tourist attraction. First Hanford and his men stripped the bark off of the tree in these giant 40 foot tall sections,. And then they said about cutting it down. Yeah. The discovery tree today is just the discovery stump. There's a set of stairs that walk up to the top of it. It's probably six or seven steps that you go up to to get on top of this thing