FREMONT, Ohio (WCMH) — An unexpected crime has occurred at the former Ohio home of the 19th President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes.

The estate, known as Spiegel Grove, is the location of the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, and its grounds host an accredited arboretum featuring more than 1,700 trees. According to a news release from the organization, one of those trees — a tiny bristlecone pine — was stolen.

The unusual evergreen was the only one of its kind at The Grove, a level II arboretum with more than 100 species of trees and woody plants. The organization noted that bristlecone pines are among the “oldest-known living things on earth” and can “live 4,000 to 5,000 years.”

The tree, reportedly pulled out of the ground, was planted as a seedling on Arbor Day 2021 a

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