By Steve Novak | For lehighvalleylive.com

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The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree stands lit as people take photos of it and the holiday decorations Nov. 29, 2017, in New York.

AP Photo | Andres Kudacki

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The Christmas trees used every year in New York's Rockefeller Center have a little more to give after the holidays are over.

For the 11th year, wood from the celebrated trees will be used in dozens of Habitat for Humanity homes.

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It hasn't been decided where lumber from this year's tree — chopped down in State College — will be used, a Habitat spokesman said, but they provided a list of every town where the last 10 became a part of someone's residence.

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2017

Came from: State College, Pennsylvania

Ended up: Undetermined

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2016

Came from: Oneonta, New York

Ended up: Newburgh, New York

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2015

Came from: Gardiner, New York

Ended up: Newburgh, New York

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2014

Came from: Danville, Pennsylvania

Ended up: Philadelphia

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The 75-foot Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, from State College, Pa., is put into place Nov. 11, 2017, at Rockefeller Plaza in New York.

Diane Bondareff | AP Images for Tishman Speyer

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This Jan. 8, 2011, photo provided by Habitat for Humanity shows lumber milled from the 2010 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree being stacked for construction of a Habitat for Humanity house in Newburgh, N.Y.

Habitat for Humanity via AP

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2013

Came from: Shelton, Connecticut

Ended up: Bridgeport, Connecticut

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2012

Came from: Mount Olive Township, New Jersey

Ended up: New York City and Morris, New Jersey

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2011

Came from: Mifflinville, Pennsylvania

Ended up: Philadelphia

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2010

Came from: Mahopac, New York

Ended up: Newburgh, New York

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In this Dec. 16, 2015, file photo is a plank of wood in Lisa Wilson's new home built by Habitat for Humanity in Philadelphia.

AP Photo | Matt Rourke

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2009

Came from: Easton, Connecticut

Ended up: Stamford, Connecticut

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2008

Came from: Hamilton, New Jersey

Ended up: New York City

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2007

Came from: Shelton, Connecticut

Ended up: Pascagoula, Mississippi

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Joseph Balku's 80-foot tall Norway Spruce is carried to a trailer in Mount Olive for the 2012-13 Rockefeller Center Holiday Season.

NJ Advance Media file photo

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“They didn’t just cut it and throw it away. They used it in something good. And what better than my home?” Viridiana Perez told The Associated Press during a visit to her family’s soon-to-be home being built in Newburg, New York, with wood from 2016’s 94-foot Norway spruce.

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The lumber is used by local Habitat chapters differently, the spokesman said, but is usually spread out among multiple homes in each location. The wood from the show trees is often too knotty to support much weight but can be used strategically, such as bracing floor joints.

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No Rockefeller trees have come from the Lehigh Valley, but a few have been harvested nearby, including two from just outside Warren County: The 2012 tree was found in Mount Olive Township in Morris County, and the 2002 tree came from Alexandria Township in Hunterdon County.

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Workers place a 7-ton, 76-foot high, 43-foot wide Norway Spruce on a flatbed truck in 2002 after it was cut down from the Rizzo property in Alexandria Township, to be used as the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

NJ Advance Media file photo

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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