Angel Oak Offspring Traditional Cache
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Bison tube attached at bottom of fence. Log only.
I placed this cache to bring you to the location of a tree which is certified to have been grown from an acorn of the Angel Oak on Johns Island, SC. How this certifcation was made, I'm not sure. Can you do a DNA sequence on trees? Anyway, in the hallway of the nearby building hangs a plaque that states: "Towering over 65 feet high, the Angel Oak has shaded John's Island, SC, for over 1400 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 when Abraham Waight received it as part of a small land grant. The tree stayed in the Waight family for four generations, and was part of a Marriage Settlement to Justus Angel and Martha Waight Tucker Angel. In modern times, the Angel Oak has become the focal point of a public park. Today the live oak has a diameter of spread of 160 feet, a circumference of nearly 25 feet, and covers 17,100 square feet of ground. The Angel Oak is thought to be the oldest living thing east of the Mississippi River. Your tree grew from an acorn taken from the Angel Oak."
Congratulations to The Green Family on their FTF!
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