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Noting the pivotal role that Sherman had played in the Indian Wars and his forced relocation of native American tribes, they renamed the tree in honor of Karl Marx. Seven years later, in 1886, the land came under the control of the Kaweah Colony, a utopian socialist community whose economy was based on logging. The official story, which may be apocryphal, claims the tree was named in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman.
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The General Sherman was named after the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. Looking upward from the base of the General Sherman located in California's Sequoia National Park Another larger coast redwood, the Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens) cut down in the mid-1940s near Trinidad, California, is estimated to have been 15–25% larger than the General Sherman tree by volume. The Lindsey Creek tree, with more than 90,000 cubic feet (2,500 cubic meters) almost twice the volume of General Sherman, was reported felled by a storm in 1905.
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While the General Sherman is the largest currently living tree, it is not the largest historically recorded tree. It is estimated to be around 2,200 to 2,700 years old. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. General Sherman is a giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S.