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I just counted the rings on a white oak we took down yesterday. 312 years old, and it was growing before my town was even founded.
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morgan_ramirez6d ago
312 years is a hard thing to really picture. That tree was a sapling in the early 1700s. It was there through the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, everything. It makes our little town, and us, feel very new and temporary. It's a real shame to lose that kind of living history.
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jenny3916d ago
Just read "Heritage Oaks".
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They cut down a 312 year old witness to history so someone can have a slightly bigger deck or a new sunroom. Honestly, that tree saw more American history than most textbooks and it got turned into mulch for a subdivision called "Heritage Oaks".
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