I’ve seen pics of my town a log time ago. The main street was lined with huge old chestnuts, limed white about 4 feet up the trunk.
Hubby’s grandparents lived in upstate NY, almost in canada. Their street was lined, both sides, with unbelievably huge trees. They had a microburst one spring, not quite a tornado, and it took them all out. :(
Tragic! Isn’t Chestnut the species that suffered a huge and almost total blight and died out a few years ago? I don’t think we have chestnut trees in Texas that I know of but I have seen them in Europe.