“Our original house was built in 1904. I believe the tree was planted when the house was built. There were at least 2 apple trees and a peach tree. A story (that I cannot corroborate, told by our deceased neighbor) was that the trains (the train track was laid in 1903) that carried soldiers going to fight in WWI would stop by our property and the soldiers would get off and come take apples off the tree.”

“We lived in this house from 1997-2008 (roughly). I understand this is old farm land and I think there were many orchards in the area. It’s a beautiful old, established apple tree. It was a perfect climbing tree for our young daughter, with its sturdy, smooth, low limbs. I have missed it since we left. As a result, we planted two apple trees in our current yard ... but they’ll never be quite the same.”

“We owned this property for 23 years. It used to be part of an orchard. We had very old apple trees on the property and did everything we could to keep them viable. Except for two more recent trees, they were very old and a variety I could not identify in any book of apples ... The apples were delicious. When green, they were like a granny smith. As they ripened, they got red stripes coming from the top core. With further ripening, the skin turned yellow. They were great in pies and cider.”

“When the old Martin farm was first being subdivided, and the first houses were under construction, my mother spotted a crew planning to cut down the tree and resolved to buy the house to save the tree.”

“When I was a senior at CU, I used to walk up to the campus along the path behind the student athletic center. About a quarter of the way up, there were a number of apple trees with the best apples I have ever tasted before or since. I would leave the path at a bend in the trail, climb a low wall and there they were. I ate them every day in the fall and into winter ... That was 34 years ago.”

“When we moved to our home in Louisville two years ago, we were told by our neighbors that the apple tree in our front yard produces some of the best apples in Louisville. When the tree produces fruit, we get people from all over town stopping in our yard to get apples. We’ve learned that the tree is somewhat famous. The apples are green, medium sized, and slightly sweet. They are tasty to eat right off the tree and make fantastic apple turnovers.”

“We first learned of the tree when we first saw and purchased the property in 2007 ... The past few years it has developed the (fire?) blight and we think this could be its last year, although we are going to try to encourage it for as long as possible because it provides such great shade. This spring, like many of the flowering trees in Boulder, it has been quite a beautiful sight. Given how ravaged it is by the blight, we are very happy that this old tree got at least one more opportunity to look its best.”