Angel Oak Trees
Angel Oak (John's Island, South Carolina) Reportedly the oldest thing -- living or man-made -- east of the Rockies, Angel Oak is a live oak tree aged approximately 1,500 years. Some locals simply call it The Tree. It stands in a wooded area along Bohicket Road of John's Island. The City of Charleston, South Carolina now owns Angel Oak.
Towering over 65 feet high, the Angel Oak has shaded John's Island for over 1500 years, and would have sprouted 1000 years before Columbus' arrival in the New World!
Recorded history traces the ownership of the live oak and surrounding land, back to the year 1717.
Live oaks generally grow out and not up, but the Angel Oak has had plenty of time to do both, standing 65 ft high and with a canopy providing 17,100 square feet of shade. Its limbs, the size of tree trunks themselves, are so large and heavy that some of them rest on the ground (some even drop underground for a few feet and then come back up), a feature common to only the very oldest live oaks.
It has survived countless hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and human interference, so there's a good chance it will still be there waiting for ya.:)
Ta see a Silly Story I wrote about the Angel Oak tree-
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