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On 10 Sep 2004 05:52:14 -0700, wrote:

* 50 feet tall
* bark looks like Sweet Gum (but is not)
* leaves a
** untoothed simple (5 to 6 inches long)
** dark green in summer
** turn dark red in august (seems early)
** begin falling in late august (nearly bare by Nov)

This is just a wild guess, so don't get your hopes up :-), but your
description
might fit the Sourwood tree, Oxydendron arboreum.

But at 50', may rather a Sourgum (Blackgum, Tupelo) tree? The above
description fits. Do some of the branches grow almost perpendicular to the
trunk, straight out?
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/c...sylvatica.html