After the previous sign  for the Village Green’s Camperdown elm tree in front of Kingston’s Village Green was vandalized, community members, Barbara Aston and Michael Norris of Kingston donated the necessary amount.

The Kingston Historical Society (KHS), in cooperation with the Village Green Metropolitan Park District (MPD), intended to raise funds to restore signage Center.

The couple made their donation because they said, they love trees and thought they could help.

The Camperdown elm is featured prominently on the donor wall inside the new community

center.  It is one of three historic Camperdowns in Kitsap County believed to be more than 100 years old. Camperdown elms are cultivars that cannot reproduce from seed. Their DNA is essentially the same as the original tree found at the Camperdown House in Dundee, Scotland.

Thanks to the generous donors, Kingston’s elm will now have a sign honoring its history.