With an estimated age of 183 years at the time it died, the Appomattox Court House Honey Locust stood on the south edge of the Richmond-Lynchburg Stage Road until 2000. It was along this road that Gen. Robert E. Lee and the men of the Army of Northern Virginia traveled and stacked their arms. The tree would have been 48 years old at the time. On that day, Generals Lee and Grant met in the parlor of Wilmer McLean's home to discuss the terms of surrender. These offspring trees are all that remains of the historic Appomattox Court house Honey Locust.