Historical Name: Ball
Common Name: Black Walnut
Latin Name: Juglans nigra
The Timothy Ball Black Walnut grows in front of the Ball home in Maplewood, NJ. It was here that George Washington hitched his horse to a ring on the tree while visiting relatives both before and after the Battle of Springfield. The tree also served as the dividing line between the Presbyterian congregations of Orange to the north and Springfield to the south. A nut collected from the Ball Black Walnut grew into the tree found in UCNJ’s Historic Tree Grove. It was planted into the Grove in 2007.